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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR.- Many students, of whom you are one, have as yet made no reply to the inquiries of the committee in regard to college athletics. Without the co-operation of the students. the committee cannot form a clear idea of the state of athletics and of physical exercise in the college. This is a matter which deeply concerns the welfare of the University, and in which instructors and students alike have an interest. The committee wish to know what are the habits of exercise and the opinions of students of every sort; of those who take no active part...
...least, unreasonable. Further, after having defeated Princeton twice, as we have, it is unreasonable to suppose that people will care enough about this third game to stand the imposition of an extra 25 cents for every seat, over and above the usual amount. Perhaps the new manager cannot do better than follow the precedent, established by long years of experience...
...were such that the game should never have taken place, and secondly, the lead once so firmly established in Harvard's hands should never have been relaxed. With the score standing seven to nothing up to the fifth inning. any attempts to explain the loss of the game satisfactorily cannot but be ignored. Some of the errors may have been excusable, owing to the slipperiness of the ball, but the freshmen might at least have been expected to do as well as their opponents, as the conditions were equally unfavorable to each side. Once more Yale wins the fence...
Among the books lately published in the series of English History from Contemporary Writers, Senior de Mountfort and His Cause is one of the most interesting. This edition of historial subjects is a very happy idea and cannot fail to recommend itself to students interested in this branch of study. Such publications admit of a more elaborate and specific study of the details of the occurrence of early English history, and are therefore necessarily of value to the reading world. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York...
...cannot speak with the same confidence in regard to the freshman game. If Ninety-one wins the game it will be through a steadiness and attention such as the nine has hardly yet shown, but we hope that the importance of the occasion will call out those qualities. Remember, Ninety-one, you are fighting for more than personal or even class glory. The whole college watches you in your contest today. See that you do not disappoint it. In conclusion, we offer to the nines our hearty encouragement in the work...