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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems scarcely possible that she will be represented on the ball field by a team in which Stagg is not included. Dalzell, the only remaining candidate, was change pitcher of last year's nine and is considered a very promising pitcher. He has great speed, and it will be difficult to find a man to hold him. Dann, the old Yale catcher, is not now in college, and his loss will be severely felt with this battery. Yale would have experienced litttle difficulty in defeating her old opponents again this year; but, with a new battery, it remains...
...Pierian is working hard, but is not yet up to its standard of last year. This is due greatly to the fact that the pieces which are played are much more difficult than any of last year's. The club contains forty members, and several new instruments have been added this year. The support from '92 is unfortunately very small...
...last paragraph of the report deserves especial attention. Complaint is made that the old custom of each man at the training tables paying what his board had previously cost him, has for some unknown reason been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed...
...Advocate made its appearance yesterday afternoon. The articles are varied and unusually good, and in many respects this number may be considered the best of the current volume, though it is difficult to pronounce even this issue more worthy since all preceding ones have been of such undeniable merit. The editorials are forcible and upon subjects of interest to every college man. The remarks about a prospective rowing tank are especially noteworthy and the suggestions deserve to be put into practice without delay. "A Knight of Today" is a graphic recital of a romantic episode, the scene of which...
...college is in favor of the erection of such a tank and a site has been chosen and approved by the boating men. Funds only are lacking and it seems to us that in the present state of college feeling, the raising of such funds would not be a difficult matter. We all desire to see Harvard in athletics restored to her old position in the foremost rank of American colleges. Each successive defeat pushes us further from the front and if we do not desire to see in the spring one more victory added to Yale's already long...