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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bostons, after their summer's play, are in excellent practice, and with their professional player form one of the strongest Elevens in the country. Our Eleven suffered from the loss of one of their bowlers, and were, as a whole, quite out of practice, even in fielding. They are to be congratulated for doing as well as they did. There is promising material in College for a good eleven, and Mr. Lee hopes to have a team in the Spring whose record shall not fall behind that...
...free from this annoyance, living as we do so near the city, where we can obtain what we wish at much more reasonable prices without very much extra trouble. Here we see the true student-nature, always grumbling and complaining, but never taking active measures for improvement. But even if laziness does prevent any endeavors to put a stop to these extortions, it is well worth while to come to a realizing sense about them...
Wherever we turn in Cambridge, we meet with extortion in one shape or another, often too insignificant to deserve notice, but sometimes so open and barefaced as to arouse even the student's indignation. The price we pay for our books is outrageous, for an advance of almost twenty percent is asked for bringing them from the city. This is easily proved by comparing city prices with those demanded here. Bad as this is, it cannot be compared to the cold-blooded fraud perpetrated on us at the bank. Here for cashing all checks that are not indorsed...
...unanimous request of the students, fall to the ground; and it is only through listlessness, or a feeling that some one will be sure to support it, that so many of us are backward. This being the case, has not the Reading-Room a claim on all, even upon those who do not use it, inasmuch as it is one of the students institutions, the advantages of whose success we should all share and whose failure we should all alike regret...
...that the others can support it this year. Any one of these excuses is considered sufficient for not subscribing, and the result of course is that it is with great difficulty that the association is each year kept from dissolution, scarcely enough money being raised to pay current expenses, even though these are made as small as possible...