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...bright but somewhat cool. Before the game was finished the 500 spectators were beginning to think longingly of their open fire-places, and some were bewailing their foolishness in leaving their overcoats in their rooms. Of these 500 spectators, about 350 watched the proceedings from the other side of the fence. It is a question whether it is advisable to charge fifty cents admission to the earlier and comparatively less important games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Season Opens. | 4/13/1887 | See Source »

...have been working hard every day throughout the vacation, while the rest of us have been taking a change and a rest. They have played their first game, also and have beaten their opponents. But the end is not yet. While we are encouraged by their success. we must think to encourage them by showing our interest in their work and by attending their games. If each man on the nine can feel that he has the college as a body, backing his efforts, the team will bring the pennant back to Harvard again this year, as though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1887 | See Source »

...meeting? If their opponents are willing to discuss the question once more, surely the victors in the last meeting should consent. It will be worse than a defeat next June, if Ninety has any stain on its honor in boating matters. To reconsider the former decision, not a few think, is to yield not to Yale, but to justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN RACE. | 4/5/1887 | See Source »

...reconsideration of the Yale challenge is a matter for the freshman class to think of during the coming recess. It may have been settled technically at their last meeting, but it has not been settled decisively, we hope - for the action of the class was scarcely more than a mere evasion of the real question. It is well to bear in mind that the old adage of a "stitch in time saves nine" is as true as ever it was, and the feeling of distrust which is prevalent at Yale, if not done away with at once, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/5/1887 | See Source »

...half a minute '88 got ready and began a succession of tremendous heaves. The '90 team rose as one man, but sat down again with six inches of rope on the side of '88. Balch did not give them time to breathe, but continued heaving. The audience began to think the performance was rather amusing. At the end of the five minutes '88 had taken in thirty-nine inches of rope. The freshmen made a good fight but "struck a snag," as was predicted some two weeks since. The teams were as follows: '88 - Anchor, Balch; 3, Baldwin; 2, Crocker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Winter Meeting. | 4/4/1887 | See Source »