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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cricket team at Longwood on Saturday, although a severe defeat for Harvard, ought nevertheless to be regarded as a good opportunity for our team to find out how it stands when measured against other teams of the country. It has taken advantage of this opportunity to show itself equal to anything that is expected of it at so early a season. The game of Saturday brought out admirable playing on both sides, and displayed qualities in our men that augur well for the success of the team in the approaching cricket season. We can only say that...
...annual race on the Thames. The inhabitants of Springfield have expressed a desire that the race should be held on the Connecticut, and have offered some inducements for the transfer, but there is little chance that any persuasions will induce a withdrawal from a course which has not its equal, perhaps, in New England. It is said that even better opportunities will be afforded for the accommodation of visitors than last year...
...poetry makes up for the deficiency in quantity by excellence in quality. Mr. Houghton's "Ballad of April Days," reprinted from Mr. Adam's "April," is not equal in execution to former work of the author, but in subject is particularly pleasant, and in conception is really charming. But the sonnet by Mr. Santayana, which treats of faith, must be regarded as one of the most attractive, perhaps the most attractive feature of the April Monthly. It is something that calls for more than one reading, that does not leave the mind almost as soon as it has entered...
Princeton, also, loses two of her best batsmen, but will probably rank this year, as she did last, next to Harvard in batting strength. In fielding, the nine will, from present indications, equal that of Yale, with the additional advantage of having a more effective pitcher...
...grown fifteen or twenty years older during the few months elapsed since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature he is generally supposed...