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...required; but allowance has been made for future additions, which we trust may never be wanting. Besides, it is intended to make the collection a complete one of the balls we have won by the University Nine since its organization in 1865. Second-hand balls will be purchased to take the places of those lost or not kept, fifty in all. These will be painted, and lettered with the name of the defeated club, score and date. The balls will cost $25, the painting, etc, of the balls now on hand and the number above mentioned, one hundred and thirty...
...been suggested that a game of "Hare and Hounds" take the place of the Field Day of the Athletic Association...
...light of barbarians, but I was hardly prepared to find them sunk so deep in their barbarism. You will scarcely believe me, I imagine, when I tell you that at one table at my end of the Hall a regular debating society has been formed. Fierce discussions take place at breakfast, lunch, and dinner on subjects of every kind. I have heard them discuss free-thought in all its aspects at one meal, and at the next the probable course of Mukhtar Pasha. They keep a war-map at the table for reference. I can overhear every word they...
...practising to make a team, to say nothing of picking one. We urge strongly every man who enjoys shooting to become a member and to practise continuously, in order that Harvard may get together a team which will do her credit in the contests that are expected to take place during the year...
...silly foot-ball matches and other boyish nonsense which make Eastern colleges a laughing-stock in the eyes of sober-minded people. It is all well enough to have a foot-ball game once in a while for a little exercise, but for a number of colleges to take more interest in such things than they do in their studies, is a peculiar product of Eastern superiority. - Michigan Chronicle...