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...excitement of a healthy kind. Athletic sports do not divert so many from study as the theatre and billiards. Banish athletics, and you increase the attendance at the theatres and the saloons, where the temptations are greater, and the excitements less healthy than those of the ball-field and boatrace...
With the close of the Christmas recess comes a season of hard work, both for the student and athlete. Candidates for all the athletic organizations will begin active work, preparatory to contests upon the water and, ball-field. Those who intend to compete in the winter meetings of the Athletic Association will or should begin training immediately, in order that these popular meetings may not be less successful this year than in the past. The standard of excellence has always been high, and it will require more than average exertion to prevent it from falling. With so many events...
...levelling of Holmes as far as Jarvis street and across the field in the opposite direction, a new field will be made, large enough to hold the foot-ball and base-ball field and the track. In this way we shall have the full length track surrounding the other fields, and all of them shut in by a fence, as was proposed last year for Jarvis. The surplus land will be marked out for tennis, as well as what is now the ball-field on Jarvis. It is needless to comment on the advantages of such a plan, if carried...
...only was the last contest with Yale noteworthy as being one of the most splendid of our victories, but also because in it Tyng, Ernst, and Wright played for the last time with Harvard. The departure of three such men, whose reputation on the ball-field will long be kept alive by succeeding classes, is an event of no small interest to the University...
...pitching that the loss of Tyng in the second game was the sole cause of Yale's heavy batting. To the graduates of the Nine of 1878 the Crimson bids a last farewell, and wishes them as successful a career through life as they have met with on the ball-field; to the undergraduates we look for a nucleus for the Nine of 1879, and extend to them the hearty support of the Crimson in the future, as it has been extended to '78 in the past...