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...Peabody spoke last night on our coming obstacles, physical, mental and moral. There are thres ways of dealing with an obstacle; to struggle with it unsuccessfully, to crawl around it meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human...
...with Columbia twelve seconds later, which is equivalent to about four lengths. The New York boys were crawling up a little, but though their supporters encouraged them most enthusiastically, it was of no avail. Harvard had too much reserve power. As the crews neared the three-mile flag, one began to realize that very fast time was being made, and many conjectures were expressed as to whether or not the record would be broken. Harvard was still pulling her 33 strokes a minute, while Columbia, who had reduced her competitors' lead to three lengths, was desperately struggling to crawl...
Prineton . . . . . . Mr. Corwin "Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs, Upon a slimy sea." Coleridge...
...Harvard's, which the latter won, 55 to 33. Harvard's fielding was loose, however, says the Advocate. In this game, Abercrombie of Harvard made "a magnificent throw from Quincy street to third base." The make up of the Yale nine for 1866 is given, together with a "crawl" of their junior class for a combat with Harvard...
...pounds and is not incapacitated by physical weakness or deformity to go out and try for his eleven. Captain Slocum is making the most of the material at his disposal, and we hope that his team can beat the Yale freshmen, or, like '88's team, force them to "crawl;" but no team can be a good team without having the best material in the class to draw from, and even the best of teams thus formed cannot live on good wishes. Let '90 support her eleven...