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...base-ball management. During the last few years there has been an alarming decrease in the number of men who can be considered good ball players. The number of candidates this year is exceedingly small. There are, perhaps several reasons for this, but the chief one is, I think that too few are engaged in the sport seriously. If a man fails to become a member of the University nine he may continue to play, but it is solely for pleasure that he does so. He does not consider that by improving himself he aids the cause of base-ball...
...regard to the complaint we do not think, but we know that we speak for the college in emphatically denouncing the action of the spectators in the hissing which played a prominent part in some of the sparring bouts. That an excited crowd will blindly follow its sudden impulses, if given a start by one bolder than his fellows we know, but men should control and hide such open bursts of feeling, and must do so it the gentlemanly character of Harvard sports is to be kept up. The hissing once started, it was easy to keep it up without...
...race between Columbia and Harvard has been officially declared off-for this year at least. To say that this action has our heartiest approval is only to repeat what we said last fall. We do not think it advisable for Harvard to row Columbia so short a time before the race with Yale, and as long as Columbia could not manage to row us earlier, it is far better to give up the idea of any race at all. The Columbia men understand our position in this matter thoroughly, and they have treated us in most honorable and gentlemanly manner...
...interest in aquatic sports. Very few students to-day know anything of the changes which have brought rowing into its present high repute. We look with pleasure for the continuation of the narrative. The last prose article is "How John Swinton came to go into Business." We do not think that Swinton as portrayed here was very logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers, he seems to have chosen very inferior men as the proper representatives of their classes. He certainly lost sight...
...people. William Morris has recently entered upon the true task of the poet. He sees that as life is not ideal there is all the more need and opening for poetry. Walt Whitman has also tried to face this nineteenth century world boldly; and, whatever we may think of his literary style, his spirit is genuine. It is said that the modern spirit is hostile to art and that the tyranny of science drives poetry out of existence. But poetry is based on realism, and the poet should take the cold facts of science and humanize them. Human sentiment should...