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NEVER before were brilliancy, beauty, and culture so fully represented on the ball-field as they were by the audience which graced the benches of Holmes Field on Class Day afternoon; and never before had such a gathering greater cause for rejoicing in the success of their favorites than did the numberless friends of Harvard on that victorious day. They saw a record of severe defeat wiped out by corresponding triumph, yes, more than corresponding. Five to Zero was overwhelmed, submerged, buried deep beyond the possibility of resurrection, while Ten to One was written out in letters of light equally...
...reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with the added inspiration of surroundings, time, and place, gave our fellows an impetus toward success that was irresistible, and that swept their opponents into almost nothingness...
...that Jarvis had not been in a condition for use has much to do with the poor showing in athletics Harvard makes this year; but we hope that the comparison, so unfavorable this year, may be changed next spring, and that the Athletic Association may again meet with the success which it once...
...through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform movement have naturally felt some delicacy in having it noised abroad and made the subject of general comment until the success of their experiment was fully assured. Judging, however, from the results above given, I think that they have every reason to be sanguine for the future...
...cravat, was in the constant habit of securing tin cans to the tails of unoffending dogs. The projectors of the reform were at first much troubled by this preference shown to the letter rather than the spirit of the movement, but their efforts have at last met with success. Meanwhile, we shall continue to look steadily in the direction of C-nc-rd for some new idea...