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...annual dinner of the Boston Press Club was held in the United States Hotel last evening. A small number of Harvard men were invited. One of the after dinner speeches was given by H. C. Lakin L. S., the Harvard correspondent for the Boston Herald. He gave a straight-forward, lively speech on the work of college men who correspond for the Boston and New York dailies, and also on the characteristics of the college papers. His speech was well received...
Yesterday the candidates for the sprints were run trial heats of forty yards on time. The straight-away of the board track was used and though the men ran slightly up hill and against the wind, there were some half dozen of them who made this distance in 4 4-5 seconds. Today the distance men will in turn be tried under the watch...
...Harvard's goal, nearly in front of the goal posts. Thorne had punted from about Harvard's 40 yard line. Wrightington caught the ball on the fly and started to run towards the Yale side of the field. He was running diagonally across the field and I was running straight down the field in the direction of Harvard's goal line. He had run about ten yards when I tackled him, both of us being on the dead run. I made a diving tackle, jumping and tackling him about the knees. He fell on his side, falling towards Harvard...
...disturbances have been "boisterous action very generally participated in." Conduct may be boisterous and still proper. We should remember that we are neither old gray-beards or a body of college professors, that it is untrue to our natures as young gentlemen - boys if you please - to sit perfectly straight and rigid, perfectly composed and dignified when visitors are present in the gallery. If we sat in our places like frozen mummies we should be as Doroty Lundt expressed in the Transcript last April: "Harvard boys? Not a bit of it! Young gentlemen from Dr. Blimber's own academy, taking...
...smoothness with which the different intricate plays were gone through was remarkable. Every man knew the signals to perfection, and when one was given each man went straight to his position; there was no jostling nor confusion...