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...wish therefore to protest against what may be called blind enthusiasm. Harvard has a team well up to, if not above, the standard of the average Harvard team. We believe that it will go into the game resolved to rise to the occasion and do a little better than its best. Its superiority to Yale, however, remains to be shown next Saturday and to assume it beforehand is the height of absurdity...
...forth-coming number of the Lampoon is on the whole above the standard. Since the '98 board came in, the paper has shown a most laudable tendency to strive for genuine wit rather than to depend upon puns. The present number is a good example of the success of this. Many of the pieces are excellent, and the one headed "Lampy's Bureau of Heraldry" is as good as anything the paper has done for a long time. Another thing to be praised about the number is that it is got to press unencumbered by any illustrated love offerings...
...preliminary trials for the Harvard-Yale debate were held on Friday in Osborne Hall. The speaking was not up to the usual standard and showed a great lack of preparation. The eight men who were chosen to speak in the final trials and are therefore eligible for the Thacher Prize are: H. Bingham, Jr., '98, K. Bruce 1900, J. K. Clark '99, C. L. Darlington '99, H. W. Fisher '98, G. M. Ripley '98, F. E. Richardson '98, B. C. Smith '99. The final trials will be held on Friday of this week...
...Freshman eleven has on the whole shown up exceedingly well this fall. The men who turned out early in the year were nearly all promising candidates; they have worked hard and the team now chosen is well up to the Freshman standard. The line is heavy and holds well, though several of the men have a tendency to offside play. The backs are all good runners and follow their interference in good shape. Reid who has been playing an excellent game at fullback, is laid up at present, and his absence will weaken the team somewhat, especially in kicking...
...Hawthorne, 15; Holmes, 15; Whittier, 9; Longfellow, 14; and Emerson, 14 vol., illus. with 349 Photogravures; their new Ed. of Bret Harte. Little Brown and Co.'s New and Elegant Ed. of Francis Parkman, 20 vol., 120 ill. by Goupil and Col., Paris. All Eds. of the Standard Authors from $12 to $100 (Eds. de Luxe); Superb Ed. of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated), 15 vol.- very rare. Standard Dictionary and Encyclopaedia Brittanica...