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...Yale has lost the championship; there is little use of trying to conceal this fact. We make this apparently premature statement for the reason that we think it impossible for both Brown and Yale to beat Harvard; both of which things would have to happen even to tie Harvard for first place. We shall try to bear our defeat as best we can. It was bound to come some day, as people say of Hanlan. There are many circumstances which lead us to think that fortune is not favorably inclined toward us this year. She began last fall...
...write, we believe that the present instructors are getting the best result possible out of such a scheme. A comparison of the work done to-day, and the care shown in its criticism, with that of five or ten years ago will go far to justify our statement. Under the circumstances, we feel compelled to assert that the report accepted by the overseers is not only misleading, but is thoroughly unfounded on facts...
...correspondent in Thursday's Transcript gave a very clear account of the composition and functions of the several governing bodies of Harvard College. The communication is headed, "Overseers without Powers." The writer says that he makes no attack upon the overseers, "for a bare statement is attack enough." Following is the substance of the article...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- There has appeard in the CRIMSON several times during the past few weeks the surprising statement that for many years Harvard has not won the freshman base-ball series with Yale. Now, as a matter of fact, the freshman series between Harvard, '87, and Yale, '87, was won by Harvard. The facts of the case last year were these; Yale, '87, won the first game of the series at New Haven. The second game, played here, resulted in a victory for Harvard '87, by the score of 5 to 1. Each team having won a game...
...this period of the revolt, and as a result, the book somewhat unnaturally falls into two parts,-preparation for the revolt, and the revolt itself. The treatment for the preparation of the revolt is a masterly effort, and is thoroughly exhaustive. Great thought has been bestowed upon an exact statement of the causes which have unsettled the body politique of Russia, and the natural effect of these causes upon the Russian mind. The attention given to apolism and mysticism brings into prominence two comparatively new phases of the question. But the latter half of the book is hardly satisfactory...