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...expected that the nine will take first place in the quadrangular league with Amherst. Dartmouth and Trinity. The practices of sending out student-preachers has been adopted at Williams. Every week delegations from the college hold services in the neighboring villages. Snow shoeing is a very popular sport. Large parties go out every Wednesday and Saturday for a tramp on the deep snow of the Berkshire Hills. A great deal of interest has been recently aroused in the prohibition question. A club of students has been formed for debating the subject...
Foot ball, as played by our college elevens, is a very different game from the foot-ball of England. And, in fact, there are two kinds of foot-ball over there. Those who play the Association game think there is nothing like it as a scientific and exciting sport, while the Rugby players are just as devoted to their style of game...
...they started in to develop the game than they found that there are a good many enthusiasts on the game in the city who were formerly Association players. They have been bobbing up one after another, until a goodly number have come forward to take hold of the sport. Unless all signs fail, the coming spring will see some foot-ball matches in Boston as played in England...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Skating, which is the only out-door sport available during the winter, has always been popular at Harvard. Almost every afternoon when the ice is in good condition a crowd of men collect at Fresh Pond to indulge in the exhilarating game of hockey. There are, however, several drawbacks to the enjoyment of these games. The muckers, who always congregate on the pond in large numbers, are apt to interfere, or at least take part, which is almost as bad. Frequently there is no ball at hand, and a wooden block has to be substituted with very...
...teams unanimously withdrew all protests that had been entered, showing most unmistakably that the rivalry of the season had been a most generous one. A few years of contest between such teams and in such a spirit will so thoroughly convince every one of the value of the sport that nothing short of the most abject folly on the part of the younger players who take up the game can prevent its future being the brightest, because the most free from any professional or hippodroming element, of any of our pastimes...