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Ninety-five did not play a very good game. The men lacked life, were very slow in lining up and blind to all chances to fall on the ball. They broke through quickly but almost always at the wrong moment; and consequently over-ran the back who had the ball. The eleven made some attempts at interference, but it was not very effective except at times around the left end where Boston Latin was rather weak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard '95, 22; B. L. S., 2. | 11/25/1891 | See Source »

...should be considered. Whatever the decision of the Faculty shall be in the matter, this feeling, which certainly exists among the students, should not be disregarded. Enough of the reasons which determine their action should be announced with their decision to show a fair minded man wherein he is wrong in holding the opinion that many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1891 | See Source »

...course. The same thing is true of the courses which come the last thing in the afternoon; in many of them the students are kept from ten to fifteen minutes over the hour. Now there is not only no use or advantage in this, but it is also wrong in principle. All lectures should stop promptly on the hour. Men go to lectures and recitations with the understanding that they will be kept an hour, and when they find that they are being kept longer they grow restless and inattentive. The days are crowded so full now with the extra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1891 | See Source »

...intercollegiate team will start from Cambridge at quarter of eleven this morning. They will have a special car to take them in town, a special car on the train and a special dining car. Something was wrong with the food on the train last year and special precautions are to be taken this year. The men will reach New York at about six o'clock and go to the Park Avenue Hotel. They will take a walk after dinner. Saturday's breakfast will be about eight o'clock and the morning will be spent in studying, walking and so forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intercollegiate Team. | 5/29/1891 | See Source »

...Harvard runner got on a base it seemed to be the signal for him to show utter disregard of the coaching. The coachers in their turn got "rattled," and whenever the runners deigned to pay the slightest attention to their coaching, invariably told them to do the wrong thing. The last of the game was not so tiresome, for it began to be interesting to note what ridiculous mistake the Harvard base runners would next make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard 6; Amherst 2. | 5/4/1891 | See Source »

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