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Said one freshman solemnly to another: "Got your lessons?" "I am not sure." "Neither am I; for, you know, you don't always know what you do know for certain, don't you know...
...same old ground again, but one or two points may perhaps be dwelt on without taxing too much the patience of the reader already exhausted on this topic. The playing of college men with professional teams, although excellent practice, as it teaches them to be cool, to eatch surely and to use their heads, is not absolutely necessary to produce a fine playing nine. Now throwing and catching the ball and good field work may be admirably practised among amateurs without any outside aid, as last years college base-ball record shows, but batting and making safe hits is quite...
...often been remarked that Harvard does not seem to use all her advantages to the utmost especially in the way of lectures. The instructors in the classical departments do, to be sure, give readings from the ancient authors; and last year there was a very interesting course of lectures given by one of the instructors in philosophy. But beyond that, excepting the lectures connected with the gymnasium work, there has been nothing of the sort. Strangers are invited to speak or read before us, but of the home talent we have no advantage except by taking their courses...
...general impressions which their recollections gave them, that there could be little doubt of its containing much truth-truth, too, of a startling character: the first boys at school disappear at the colleges, and those who are first in the colleges disappear in the world. I am not sure that a similar conclusion would not follow from a similar investigation into our own, as well as into English and German academical history, and that it would not be found that the men most useful and successful in after-life were not those who had placed themselves most fully under...
...number will soon be increased. This is a very gratifying beginning as it points to a long term of careful training and the prospect of a body of men in splendid condition when the season opens for outdoor exercise. Nor is this energy wasted. We can never be too sure of winning in the inter-collegiate games. Many things may happen to mar our chances where so many events are to be contested for, and such a variety of mishaps are to be guarded against. Moreover with the graduation of '83, a large number of last year's team left...