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...proposal to revive the old-fashioned "scratch" races at Harvard, we consider an excellent one. Besides affording much harmless sport and amusement to both spectators and contestants, they serve in a measure to keep alive through the fall an interest in boating on the Charles. The races proposed are set for Saturday next and are practically free for all. It is to be hoped that enough entries will be made to insure the event and to make it of sufficient excitement and interest. As practically a novelty a large attendance is assured, provided enough are found of sufficient patriotism...
...check this tendency at Harvard, and if our other colleges join with her in this move, with them also. And if this happens Harvard will not be placed at an unfair disadvantage in her contests with other colleges. But what has seemed to many radically wrong in our sports, I think, has been their growing exclusiveness. Of course the highest excellence in all sports is a thing we all approve of and desire to see attained at Harvard; but when almost all athletic exercises become narrowed down to so few men, and only men of naturally fine athletic abilities...
...should there be a general ousting in favor of the discontented few? Everyone knows that the number of players is far too great for the number of courts, and yet it does not seem fair that for that unfortunate reason so many should be wholly excluded from the sport. The present system of "scrambling" for courts or of one man reserving for private use the best court to be found, is unjust to the extreme and we hope that another year of dissatisfaction will be more fruitful in reform. Some persons have always insisted upon the inutility of the association...
...story of the terrier follows: "The same gentleman, nothing discouraged by his adventure in the sporting field, immediately entered into another enterprise. Yesterday there came to New Haven, by the Adams Express Company, a crate containing thirty lively rats. It was soon made known that the little terrier, Fannie, who had not succeeded in badger hunting, was to be exercised in rat-killing. As soon as the rats arrived the owner's classmates were overjoyed. They abandoned their lessons, and hastily repaired to a convenient yard, where the crate with its squealing live stock was conveniently placed for the exhibition...
...spring running meeting of the Myopia Club, which began yesterday at Mystic Park, proved to be a very successful affair, and afforded a day of rare and exciting sport...