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...Though the tide be ebb or flow...
...younger instructors. All those who have any reputation or any great abilities, with few exceptions, are of the older professors. Now, good men would come here if the work were in proportion to the pay, even if the wages were small, because then they would have time and opportunity, though probably not encouragement (if some floating stories we have recently heard be true) to pursue their studies or scientific researches, and thus extend their fame and better their positions. But it is not to be supposed that a man worth anything will come here at any price, to be tied...
...BROWN.After the brilliant game of Saturday, we naturally expected to beat Brown, on Tuesday, June 1, but the game turned out to be one of the poorest our Nine has played this year. The Brown nine excelled us at every point, and at one time it looked as though we should be whitewashed, without making a safe hit. Folsom and Winsor were both injured during the game, but not so severely as to prevent them from finishing it, or to excuse our bad playing. Shattuck at first did the best work for Harvard in the field, and White...
...work and training that would do credit to other organizations which make larger claims upon College support. The two clubs by whom it has just been defeated have the reputation of being first-class teams. Hence the result of the games has been neither unexpected nor discouraging. But though the organization, as a whole, is a success, yet some points may be fairly criticized. For instance, the fielding is at times wretched, a fault which a little hard work would easily remedy. Another matter that apparently might be improved is the composition of the team in the different matches...
...department is admired by none more than by us. But even in faithfulness, there is a golden mean. Some instructors did have the kindness to dismiss their sections after a short recitation. Others, however, persisted in keeping their sections crowded together, without regard to health, as though students were so many sheep. This may be endurable in some rooms, but in University, especially U. E. R., it is too much for instructors to demand or for students to submit to. Admirable as is this perseverance with which a teacher is willing to subject himself to a temperature of 98 degrees...