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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seemed to the spectators largely due to its lack of team work. Such a defect is always to be found in freshman base ball teams, but in Ninety-four it seems to be exaggerated. Now the freshman football teams are always thoroughly coached by older players, and consequently they almost always show better team work than the freshman nines. There is no apparent reason why the freshman nines also should not have the advantage of good coaching. The captain of the 'varsity team naturally will have little time to give to them himself. Why could he not appoint some competent...
...wearing the sweater of another oarsman who is down with the disease. The managers of the Navy feel great anxiety, for the 'varsity men have been exposed as well as the freshman candidates, and any man who has an attack of scarlet fever at this time of year will almost surely be unable to row in the races next June...
...close of the present college year the Corporation will make some very thorough alterations in the arrangement of the rooms in Dane Hall, which is now occupied almost exclusively by the Harvard Co-operative Society and one large recitation room for the music courses. The partitions of the upper floor will be almost entirely taken out and the forward part converted into one large lecture-room. There will be other alterations down stairs so as to gain more space for lecture and recitation rooms. The Harvard Co-operative Society will continue, in all probability, to keep its present quarters down...
Yesterday's defeat was then largely the fault of the nine; perhaps it was even more the fault of the umpire. At a critical moment he called a pretty, perfectly fair hit of Howe's a foul. He allowed Murphy to score when it was perfectly evident to almost every one else on the grounds that he was out at the plate. His judgment of balls and strikes was also bad. The field, moreover, was as bad as the umpire. The attendance was small...
Neither of these two plans may seem adequate, but they are the best which, with the college's present resources, the faculty can find, and it is almost certain that the faculty will adopt one of them for next year. Those who favor the first plan are likely to say that the college can easily endure to begin work a half hour earlier in the warm months and to recite a half hour later in the winter months, and that under this arrangement a stated time, though it be short, will be set apart for the noon meal. Those...