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...college, we feel compelled to take issue with it for an opinion expressed in its issue of last week. In an editorial advising the boat club to revive the class races in the fall, it spoke as if, because the faculty have prohibited inter-collegiate foot-ball, that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis in the history of foot-ball at Harvard. A time when it will need all the aid, instead...
...eyes of their fellow students are not any more brilliantly endowed mentally than the rest, but they have one great superiority, that of knowing when and how to study. They portion out a certain amount of time each day to study and come what may, be it sport or exercise, they never fail to devote so much time to their studies, nor swerve in their duty. Thus, as it were, wedging their minds between two rigid walls of time they learn to accomplish more by thus limiting their opportunities of study than many who never cease to "grind...
...winning of the inter-collegiate championship was, in itself, honor enough for the lacrosse team, but when that achievement is supplemented by the capture of the Oelrichs cup, emblematic of the championship of America, the college may justly feel proud of its representatives in this sport. The work of the twelve during the past year has been faithful and hard,- its result has been shown in the series of almost uninterrupted victories won from strong teams. The lacrosse team of '82 held both the college championship and the Oelrichs cup; the '83 team held the collegiate championship only...
...crew is a little rough as yet, and has not yet acquired the staying power necessary for a four mile race. Birkins only joined the crew a week ago, and Richards has been in training for the Mott Haven sport...
...score now stands we can see no reason why the base-ball championship should not come to Harvard. The brilliant record of Captain Winslow's men is such as to make it almost absolutely certain that Harvard is to take the lead at last in this branch of sport. All the games remaining to be played will take place on our own grounds, and if any are lost it will be as much the fault of the college as of the nine. Yet we are far from advising the nine to trust to its past record for future success...