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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Foot ball is growing in popularity. Never before have there been so many games played in one season. Almost every college in New England, with the exception of Brown, and several outside have creditable teams...
...Association may well congratulate itself on its success. Its own exertions, aided by the increased number of boarders, have wrought most satisfactory results. The board and service has been excellent and has given general satisfaction. The man who is particular in his taste can be suited at Memorial almost as well as anywhere else, certainly in Cambridge. The order list is complete, and, what is an important consideration to so many, the prices are reasonably low. We can. I think. safely say that as good board for the money can not be got elsewhere in Cambridge...
Students in other colleges are continually complaining because they are treated more as school-boys than as college men. Monitors are appointed to watch theeir deportment in recitation, all such methods are resorted to which belong only to a preparatory school. Harvard, we are glad to say, is almost totally free from any such childish methods of discipline. Still it is to be regretted that so many of our instructors are obliged to ask for better attention and less disturbance in the recitation rooms. It is certainly rude for any student to read or converse during a recitation or lecture...
...exception of Woodman, Hopkins and Purdon, played a very loose game. They must break and back through better; and above all, they must play an aggressive game. With a weak team opposing they ought to run the score up into the fifties. Another fault is high tackling, which is almost universal. Hopkins tackles beautifully, and it is to be hoped that the rest will copy...
...practice field, and at the particular match in question and aided by data concerning the games of freshmen in the past. We wrote not from any spirit of jealousy, for all the upper classes wish well to the freshmen and look upon their efforts with an interest which almost equals their own. Nor was it a spirit of useless criticism which prompted our editorial but a desire to point out in a clear and forcible manner where their mistakes lay, and to show them that, as a part of the college, it is their duty to do their best...