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...below par. The reason for this sudden change from the intense enthusiasm of the previous year to a state of utter indifference was due to the decidedly unsatisfactory - to put it mildly - boats in which the crews would be compelled to row. Now, unless new boats are secured this spring a race next June is not likely to occur. The boat club, we are informed, has not many thousand dollars in its treasury, in fact, is barely free from debt and that is all. Therefore to buy boats is all out of the question. Of course Harvard understands how much...
Cornell proposes to send a nine to play with the Eastern colleges next spring...
...which we won; and with the Longwood Club of Boston, and St. Paul's Club, both of which we lost, owing mostly to our failure to get sufficient practice, bad weather prevailing. Still we have succeeded in raising some interest in the university, and hope to do well next spring. We are already planning for a trip to New York and Philadelphia some time next May. We will have some twenty-five men trying for places on the team, and with faithful practice I think we will be able to turn out a fairly good eleven...
There are plenty of men in college who want to see cricket do well, and it will only take a little energy to make the game a success in Harvard, and that energy I think will be forthcoming next spring. Our ground is poor, but that cannot be helped. At present there is no chance of securing a better one. We have to play almost all our matches out of Cambridge. A good ground more than anything else is what is needed to make cricket a permanent game at Harvard. Indeed, a well cared for cricket field is an ornament...
...special purpose of passing an examination was condemned as being hurtful, not only to the mind but also to the body; and the changing of the time of holding the examinations to the winter months, when the mind is active, was favored, instead of having them in the spring when the nervous system in many instances is practically prostrated...