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...last year's race would have been had Harvard remained at New London. It is impossible to forecast the result but I have no hesitation in saying that if our crew is in as good condition next June as it was last July, Harvard will have no easy task to take the colors...
During the coming season, then, an earnest and decided move should be made toward the permanent and effective establishment of class nines. Our ball players ought not to shrink from the task because it requires a certain amount of time and trouble. If the rowing men in the classes are willing to undergo two months of monotonous gymnasium training, work on the river in all sorts of weather, and make other equally great sacrifices for the sake of their class and the prospects of the university crew, surely it is not asking too much of our base-ball players...
...same spirit that he might have displayed if he were making a short address to some philosophic convention. Another student was called and told to take the next topic. He proceeded in the addressive style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task had been recited. Then the class became a sort of debating society, in which the subject matter recited was the topic under consideration. All manner of puzzling and insinuative questions were put to the old professor for expounding, and he expounded each and every one to the satisfaction...
...value in bringing out and testing the qualities of all players of ball in the college. Suitable candidates for the 'Varsity Nine will thus come forward in greater numbers, and if, as we hope, a consolidated nine be organized in the spring to give practice to the 'Varsity, the task of selected members of this nine will be rendered much easier...
...work than a senior, as he has more time and need not return from New London for class day and commencement. Moreover, after filling the position of treasurer, the man, if at all satisfactory, should be made president for his senior year as a small reward for the thankless task of subscription collecting. Nothing will give so much strength to the management as some system of regular promotion similar to the one suggested, and like that practised...