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...Exeter has a total strength of 1101.1. The strongest man at Harvard has a test of only...
...more prudence and foresight. Such a method of training is unscientific as it is discreditable to each individual member of the nine. Those who have watched the work of the Ninety-six cannot fail to notice this same unfortunate tendency. The men do not seem to realize the final test which they will be called upon to make, or else their idea of the responsibility of representing their college must be a very low one. Ninety-six starts out with bright prospects for a strong nine, but not for a moment can sheexpect to do justice to herself...
...first baseball game of the season on Saturday was as good as could be expected. It was hardly a game to test the present condition of the team. The Andover nine gave them little chance for fielding, and the ease with which the Harvard players ran bases was rather a weakness of the visiting team than a sign of great proficiency on our part. The batting was by all odds the best feature in Harvard's playing, but it was confined to so few and with comparatively inexperienced pitchers in the box, that its significance is not great...
...task of committing the lines is long and tedious. The six or eight months drilling is a hard test on ones patience. Yet since the cast is nearly completed and men have been found to undertake the work, the members of the University can well congratulate themselves that they have before them an experience with which few are favored. There is very little reason why the Latin play should not meet with the same enthusiastic reception that was accorded the Greek play. It ought certainly to have as great an educational influence. Not that it is likely to create...
...McDowel of the class of '78 is president of the organization and Barret Wendell, Bliss Carman and other Harvard men are actively interested. The experiment has been tried with success in New York and the company is now on a tour, the express purpose of which is to test whether of not the public and be interested in so called "literary plays". The first performance tonight will, to a great extent, prove the success of the venture in Boston. "The Squirrel Inn" is certainly typical of the style of play in which the company would interest the public of Boston...