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...were defeated by the home team. The ground was simply mountanous and the crowd noisy, neither of which, however, is an excuse for the wretched playing of the freshmen. The batting was lamentably weak, and the fielding, though at times fair, as a rule was poor, and showed want of practice and a tendency to get rattled. Fargo and Palmer did the best work for the freshmen, and Bates for the High School...
...individual members of the team, which, backed up by the good will and enthusiasm of the college, ought to go a long way towards the desired goal. The enthusiasm is sure to come, as any one who witnessed the wild celebrations of last spring will testify, but what we want is to see this enthusiasm exhibited a little earlier in the season...
...boat-house yesterday was not very inviting. Everything was in disorder. In the dressing-rooms there was neither fire nor water. The warm weather, however, luckily for the oarsmen, made the absence of the stove, now undergoing repairs, less a hardship than it might have been; but the want of fresh water for bathing proved to be very disagreeable. As the floats were not yet in position, and the tide was low, the crews which went out were obliged to wade knee deep in the ice-cold water and mud. It was even necessary to push aside floating cakes...
...wondered that Harvard did not publish a literary paper, though perhaps the yearly appeals of the Advocate and Lampoon for more subscribers, should have convinced us that there was little room there for another publication. Now, however, as an exchange says, "the enterprise of the Crimson has supplied the want," and Harvard has practically a fourth representative in the journalistic field. We congratulate the Crimson in the great success of its new departure.- Vassar Miscellany...
...respect it, for grief, somehow, throws a mantle of dignity around even a fool. Yet his sorrows are much aggravated by various causes-among others a natural fear taking root in his mind that perhaps he would be condemned to Hell on his death. He speaks of "the want of absolute certainly of being happy after death, the sure prospect of which is frightful." And for a year he is the picture of woe and gloom...