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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Returns from the class of '86 come in occasionially. One member is on the stage and another lately heard from who was a prominent society man, is working for two dollars a week in a brokers office. Sic itur ad astra...
...stay is always limited. As a rule they play but three years at most. When they are gone, one newspaper after another takes up the cry - "The Harvard team is greatly weakened by the loss of A": "Without X Harvard has no chance at the championship": and so on ad nauseum. And often too, there is some truth in these statements. For, relying on the powers of a few men, we have made no attempt to bring out the skill which may exist in other quarters. Hence, we have substantially to start afresh whenever a team loses several...
...Yale letter to the Boston Sunday Herald, the old chestnut is again brought forth that the material for the 'varsity nine is exceedingly poor, that there are only two good all-round players in college, etc., ad infinitum...
...voluptate epistolam Quindecim Harvardensium in vestro numero hujus hebdomadis. Sunt autem in ea quaedam expressiones quae eram attonitus videre; quia videntur mihi non satis classicae. Pro exemplo, "Multi Bullyi" debet esse (existimo) "Sortes Bullyorum," quia est multa differentia inter "Multi" et "Sortes," ut omne corpus scit. Exceptionem quoque caperem ad expressionem "ludum vilis globi" quae non in ullo bono scriptore possis invenire, et quae in mea opinione debet esse "humilis pilae." Non scire hoc crassam ignoran tiam arguit...
...tempus. President erat presens, Clevelandus appellatus, Democraticus vir; et innumeri reportores et interviewores newspaperum. Lowellus - unus, ut tuns immortalis Chuzzlewit dixit, "notissimorum hominum in hac republica" - speechificavit speechum non malum; et Clivarius Wendell Holmesius cepit opportunitatem recitare, longum poema, concoctum pro occasione; sed nenter horum erat in Latino, gratiae ad coelum! Non sumus mors-super Latino bic. Prefer amus linguam Americanam, vel, ut vos prave dicitis, Anglicam...