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...play matches. The base-ball men recall the throngs of people who see all their games on Jarvis field, as contrasted with the few hundreds who are occasionally public spirited enough to pay their way to the benches. Then there is already lack of room for practice for the various teams, and mutual concessions have to be made by them constantly. The athletic committee just granted the lacrosse team the present use of the land on Holmes field, between the new law school and the Pudding building, but the cricket club uses that in the spring, and then lacrosse will...
...game much more familiar than it now is. A swift-runner of medium build will, with a little practice, make a good player, and to those who have no taste for other athletics, the game can be highly recommended. Many exciting contests are expected this season between the various college teams. Harvard and N. Y. U. had the finest set of men last year. Columbia was so disgusted with hers that she disowned it; while Yale has taken it up this year as a regular sport. [College Mercury...
...squander both. It is undoubtedly true that such a set does exist at Harvard, as well as at other large colleges, however much we may attempt to deny the fact, and of the life of this class of students Guerndale gives a very fair and piquant account. The various scenes in Randolph and Guerndale's rooms are familiar to us all. Little Billy Bixby, with his propensities for poker and mixed drinks, is well known to us, and Hackett is an old although unpleasant acquaintance. The account of the Bacchanalian revel in Randolph's room is strongly suggestive...
...wandering boarders. But the point which we would most strongly emphasize, is the necessity of the future building being owned by such persons or corporations as labor in the interests of the students, so that the generations to come may feel that they are escaping the caprices of various women boarding-house keepers...
...noticeable, we fear, that these volumes have any of them been of exceptional ability, but nevertheless they would seem to mark a renewed tendency among college men towards the profession of literature. "Forever and a Day," the recently published "Guerndale," "Sly Ballades in Harvard China," and the various sketches reprinted from the Lampoon, will be familiar examples of this class of literature to Harvard ears. Joined with this tendency has been, we think, an increasing tendency of college graduates to enter the profession of journalism. Much of this movement is undoubtedly due to causes not easily traced; much also...