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...notice with pleasure the formation of a "Harvard Athletic Association." It supplies an evident need, and deserves hearty support and encouragement from us all. The best way to encourage the new association is to increase its roll of membership. The fear of assessments we are assured need deter none, as they promise to be very small, and will grow smaller as the number of members increase. It is a well-learned lesson of our defeat at Saratoga, that we must make contests at home, if we would have champions abroad, and another year, we trust, will bring laurels to Harvard...
However graceful and musical such poetry may be, the amount of dictionary work involved is more than sufficient to deter the general reader from dipping very deep into...