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...learned to cherish and to take...
...present point of dispute. Lacrosse, like every other college game, except tennis, needs but a single field of fixed dimensions. To tennis, as a whole, there are no limits, except the limits set by the number of students in the College; for one or two courts are not tennis. Take away twenty of the courts on the fields, and tennis would still be a game at Harvard. The present question, then, is not one between Lacrosse and tennis, but between Lacrosse and about five sets of tennis players. If the field were taken from the Lacrosse Team they would have...
...requires more than a mere name to make a college institution; it requires the interest and approval of the men." What does the Advocate mean by "the men, - those who play Lacrosse or tennis, or those who do not? If it refers to those only who take active part in the games, the remark is merely a bald truism. No man would be such an idiot as willingly to engage in anything which he disapproved of and felt no interest in. But if the Advocate is referring to outsiders, what is the statement meant to prove? For surely it cannot...
...looked at the old skipper. He shaded his shaggy eyebrows with a weather-beaten hand, and gazed alternately at sky and sea. "Ef I owned that boat I 'd take her round to the shelter o' the cove in a minit...
...Yale Faculty have consented to allow their crew to go to New London." (Groans from a man in an inconspicuous corner, whom I had heard referred to as the Exchange Exhibitor.) "There," said the chairman, "I flatter myself those are pretty good." Then, taking out his ruler, he continued after a pause, "I regret to say that we are still nine feet and three inches short. I will write the nine feet if some one will take the rest." After some discussion it was voted to be stow the rest upon the Exchange Exhibitor, who, after a long search...