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...game as a whole was very disappointing from the Harvard standpoint, for it showed that the team have not yet got rid of their slip-shod style of the past week, and that they can not hope to make a creditable record without a decided and immediate improvement...
Another plan suggested by the Class Day committee is to change the race from Friday to Thursday and then to bring the Senior dance and the baseball game with Yale on Friday and Class Day proper on Saturday. The great objection to this plan is of course from the standpoint of the crew. It has already been discussed so much that it seems unnecessary to do so again. It may be summed up, however, by saying that the time spent at New London or Poughkeepsie, has been found by experience to be of such importance in putting the finishing touches...
...door work, and the plan of making the indoor practice as short as practicable will be a welcome innovation. The decision of the Corporation allowing baseball to be played on Holmes Field this year will also help the nine, both as regards its regular work, and from a financial standpoint. It would be impossible to lay out a really satisfactory diamond on Soldiers Field this spring; and even if it were the gate receipts would there be less than on Holmes Field, because Soldiers Field is not yet sufficiently easy of access. With the general supervision of the coaching...
...time is drawing near when the candidates for the Track Athletic Team meet for the beginning of the ear's work, it seems to be a proper time to say a word from the graduates' standpoint...
...game with Brown on Saturday was certainly not encouraging from a Harvard standpoint. During the second half the team showed a lamentable weakness in defensive play and had great difficulty in preventing Brown from scoring. Mills and Graydon were the weakest points in the line, and through them the Brown halfbacks gained their distance almost every time. Brown had a number of very effective tricks which gave long gains. It must be remembered, however, that during this half Harvard made no effort to play an offensive game, and always punted as soon as she secured the ball, without endeavoring...