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...college expect a good baseball team; and the first step in this direction is to give the coach plenty of material to pick from. Every man who tries for the team should do so with the fixed determination that nothing shall prevent him from doing his best to uphold the good reputation in athletics which the class of ninety-eight has thus far sustained...
...taken into the confidence of his university boating doings. He is made to feel that he is part and parcel-as in very fact he is-of the general machinery that builds up the 'varsity, and he is given a daily opportunity of watching the crew which is to uphold the aquatic honor of his alma mater...
...hold it to be very deplorable that there is such misunderstanding and even latent antagonism, between men who uphold the claims of the body and those who uphold the claims of the mind. There is no call for it: both lay emphasis on a different means, but both really have the same end in view, and would find, if they threw away their hostile feelings, that the different means were not incompatible, but that all are needed. So long as men insist on their own views and present inclinations, the University will tend to go from one extreme...
...finest outburst of enthusiasm, the finest evidence of affection for the University, ever given in the form of cheering. Nothing is more touching, nothing more stirring to the sturdy, manly side of college men's natures, than the parting with classmates and fellow-students who go to uphold the honor of their college in contests like these football games. On no occasion in the course do class and society lines disappear so utterly, to be replaced by sympathetic union of heart and voice. And all this means quite as much to the team as to those who cheer. The thrill...
...stated in another column the freshmen leave for New London a little after one o'clock this afternoon. The occasion of their departure should be a matter of interest to the whole college for they no less than the 'varsity men, have to uphold the honor of the college. They have worked hard for their class and this in face of an apparent spirit of indifference as shown by the way the class subscriptions have been paid. If the crew cannot feel certain of the support of every member of their own class, the college should make them feel that...