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...their best condition three or four weeks before the race, and from that time onward have deteriorated. Last year the experiment was tried of not having the old members of the crew begin to train until after the holidays. This method has worked so well that this year the whole crew has been kept off the weights until the present time, and as an immediate result the men show a decidedly greater interest in the task before them. This good result will surely be followed by others of equal importance. The work now being done is light in comparison with...
These various restrictive measures have on the whole commended themselves to the judgment of the whole body of students and graduates. "When games are made a business they lose a great part of their charm, and college sports cannot approach the professional standard of excellence without claiming the almost exclusive attention of the players, and becoming too severely monotonous and exacting to be thoroughly enjoyable...
However these exceptions are not altogether unjustly taken. Under the worthy leadership of the Argo and Acta we have seen whole armies of our exchanges plunge into the same paths of poetry, which are now worn so bare that the tardy straggler finds nothing to reward his journeyings. The Argo has excelled, as all will agree, in these foreign and exotic forms, and has from time to time published verses highly creditable, but we scarcely dare to whisper our opinion that it has gone beyond the bounds of moderation in restricting its effusions to these peculiar forms, which inevitably fall...
...fielding qualifications of the rest of the nine become minor points of consideration, while if the pitcher is poor no excellence on the part of other players can remedy the defect. The pitcher, with the assistance of the catcher, is depended on to do the work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural result. A team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing anything. Success in a game depends, too often, not on particularly good play on the part...
...publications, and gives special praise to the humorous productions of the students. He gives but little space to athletics, as the subject is better known to the public and needs less description. The article closes with a lengthy description of class day and its festivities. The article, on the whole, is written in a spirit friendly to Harvard, and although, in some points, it betrays a lack of intimate acquaintance with its subject, will well repay reading by every student and every one interested in students...