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...decisive game was played led us to overlook the circumstances attendant upon this series, and in our editorial of Monday last we failed to do justice to the class. The good record made by '87, however, only serves to emphasize the failure of '88 to reach a like standard...
...work being of a character for the most part suited to each student's taste was, according to the instructors, in great contrast to former years' work. A higher standard of excellence was reached that could be possible under the prescribed system. where half a class was sullen or indifferent to the subject under discussion. In the Greek department the work has been especially gratifying, while the Latin, although also an improvement upon former years, was not quite so satisfactory The men who have undertaken the difficult history and scientific courses have also done themselves and their class credit...
...satisfied in more than one case only by a double encore. We commented last fall on the decided advance showed by the Pierian in the work over that of previous years. We have only now to say that, under Mr. Forcheimer's training the past season, a still higher standard has been reached-a standard that may be envied by any orchestra composed, as the Pierian is, entirely of amateurs. The Glee Club also showed the improvement of a winter's work. The programme last evening was very well adapted to bring out the excellent points of both organizations...
...pretty good proof of the abilities of the team. The men showed that, as a whole, they could do good work with the bat while facing a strong pitcher. The fielding was steady, notably in centre field, and the work of the battery was well up to the standard we have been taught to expect. With the nine in its present condition, there ought to be but little doubt of the issue of the game against Brown this afternoon. At any rate, we feel justified in the belief that the ruinous slip made by the nine in its game...
...arranged for the coming few weeks. If is quite a time since any cricket campaign has been planned by the club so extensive as that at present contemplated. The course of action cannot fail to bring the club into prominence, and it ought to result in greatly raising the standard of play at Harvard. The practice which the club will gain by its games against teams like those put upon the field by the Longwood, Haverford, and University of Pennsylvania cricket clubs must necessarily result in improved play next year, when, with a new crease laid out upon Holmes Field...