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...Yale students who had for several years successfully played against Princeton and Columbia, the old-fashioned game, on the suggestion of Harvard men adopted the new style. In that year the Harvard team who had had the advantage of two or three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from lack of experience. I have a faint remembrance now, of the general feeling of mortification among the students because of that crushing defeat, and the determination to retrieve the next season. How apt pupils they were is shown by the fact that since that...
...criticize our teams, and it is a task for Sisyphus to provide candidates for them; we condemn the lack of daily papers in the library, and let the reading room perish for want of fifty subscriptions...
...this sacrifice from an abstract love of the symmetrical? And is it reasonable to ask that he should? When we consider the numberless varieties of temperament and disposition; of health and courage, of inherited and acquired tests, we see that the physical education of young university men is a task as difficult as it is important, a task likely to tax the best judgment of the university authorities, as the committee on athletics at Cambridge could doubtless testify...
...absence. It is only likely that it was the cause. There has been much talk about Harvard's good prospects this year, but if this kind of business continues athletics will do their best to find a lower level than the one they now occupy. No doubt such a task would be difficult but it is within the range of possibility. Many may say that the non-athletic men don't know about such things and had better use their power of speech on a subject with which they are more conversant. This is, we are convinced, a wrong view...
...prospect of having him act as dean a very agreeable one. We trust that Professor Smith will enjoy the vacation which he so well merits, after filling such a burdensome office for so long a time uninterruptedly, and that he will come back to us refreshed for his task...