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...training up foot-ball players and we trust that this year will find an improvement in the formation of class elevens, in the better quality of material at hand, and in more systematic and scientific coaching. Lacrosse seems to have fallen behind as a university sport and we would warn all who have the interest of the game at heart that unless they improve the present time, the opportunity for establishing the game on a firm footing here will be gone. Bicycling has been energetically advanced in the college, and we can only urge its forwarders...
...such action, we can only say that he should be fully aware of the fact that the college has more than once shown its emphatic disapproval of any such expeditions. We had thought that this silly custom had died out with the flasco of last year, and wish to warn '87 against beginning its college career with its revival, Harvard is gradually reaching a point from which it can present to the college world a university free from the childish effervescence which characterize the smaller colleges. Hazing and the kindred exhibitions are fast becoming things of the past...
Accompanying the semi-annuals another affliction visits the college in the shape of those well-known vendors of Havana cigars. The methods of these vagabonds and imposters are familiar to most men, who need not be warned against their thieving deceptions, but there are doubtless a number of freshmen and others whom it may be well to warn. For the benefit of these we will say that if any picturesque looking foreigners who speak nothing but Espanol or French call upon you with a delightful tale of having just arrived in Boston from Havana on a ship with fine cigars...
...Thanksgiving game the Yale Eleven started to play their "bully" game; jumping on our half-backs after they had caught the ball, fouling the rushers and trying the intimidation scheme. It did not work. A few warnings from the referee effected something perhaps, but the pluck of some of our rushers effected more. A Princeton rusher, if fouled, would warn his opponent what to expect next time, and when "next time" came the latter was forcibly reminded that he was playing unfairly. In our rush line there happen to be some of the finest boxers in college. After the first...
...possible in the May meetings ; we have barely escaped the hot summer months, when even the most rigid athletes fall off in their exercise, and we have not enjoyed the long winter months spent in the gymnasium at the weights and on the track. Therefore we take occasion to warn any would-be competitor in the spring sports from discouragement at his failure or success this fall, when these hindrances have labored against him. What we expect now more than anything else is a manifestation of live interest in our athletics, which in the end goes a long way towards...