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...outlook for the broad jump, the pole-vault, and the hammer-throw is not encouraging. Stephenson and C. C. Little '10 are both good in the broad jump, but their shot-putting is apt to detract from their jumping at the end of the season. P. C. Haskell '08 and E. H. Ruch '10 may develop into point winners in the jump. With the loss of Grant, the team is left without any pole-vaulter of much ability, and in the hammerthrow, W. Peirce '08 and H. M. Gilmore '08 can hardly make up for the loss of Kersburg...
...baseball team will play the first game of the final series of the season--the series in which a victory means more to the team and to all Harvard graduates and undergraduates than any number of victories in preliminary games. We do not mean that a defeat today will detract from the credit which the team has earned in previous games; but it cannot be denied that the final series is the most important factor in determining whether the season shall be considered successful or not. We are confident that our team at its best is a better team than...
...idea of a memorial to Dean Shaler in the Union has met with opposition from the authorities of the Union. The chief ground of objection seems to be that a precedent would be started which would in time turn the Union into a species of mausoleum, and would detract from the home-like aspect of its interior. We feel that such fears are groundless. Dean Shaler's position in the University was so unique, that there will be few men whose claim for a memorial in the Union can be based upon the precedent of a bas-relief or bust...
Overlooking several similar inaccuracies which, however, detract materially from the value of the article, we do feel that many of the general conclusions at which Mr. Whitney arrives are true, and hurt the more because they are aimed at tender spots. "There is always slandering of one sport or another, always some official or specially appointed committee of this, or that, or the other branch of athletics. There is always some unpleasant reflection on sport in the morning papers with the Cambridge date line." And how true those statements are. In the past we graduates and undergraduates, athletes...
...women. The fire in the wooden, stands at the Princeton game last spring shows the possibility of such an occurence. This and the Iroquois fire are still so fresh in the minds of many people that it would keep them from attending the Statue exercises, and thereby detract from the success of our Class Day. A number of members of the Corporation and the Faculty and some older graduates have expressed the opinion that on account of the possibility of fire, if for no other reason, the continuance of the Statue exercises would be "highly inadvisable...