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...gratifying to note that Professor Hill is delivering lectures in English literature. We hope these lectures may be largely attended, since it can hardly be said that Harvard men at present excel in this department. But it is at least as important to obtain correct ideas of our own writers as to be proficient in Terence or Aristophanes; and a chance is offered - particularly valuable to those who take no English courses - to learn a little something about our noble English literature. And once having heard Professor Hill speak upon subjects wherein he is so competent to pronounce opinions...
...take pride in making it as good as possible, so as to compare well with exhibitions of like character. There does not seem to be a prospect of many entries on the Horizontal and Parallel Bars. This is probably due to the fact that because one or two men excel on these pieces of apparatus, every one else thinks that there will be no chance for him, and therefore he will not enter. Now this is just the wrong spirit for a man to have, and we sincerely hope it will not be shown this year. Certainly we cannot...
...knotty problems I excel...
...Scientific departments are at liberty to enter their names for any of the events, and if at the spring meeting here, they prove themselves worthy to be sent down as representatives of the College, the Athletic Association will pay all their expenses down and back. If several men excel in any one event, they will all be sent down for that event, so that, even if one happens to lose the first prize at the meeting here, he will still have a chance to compete at Mott Haven if his performance is of sufficient excellence to warrant the Association...
...invariably becomes the tool of pool-makers and rowdies, and even under the most favorable circumstances he has great difficulty in keeping his integrity above suspicion. The amateur, on the other hand, is free from these annoyances; he is supposed to enter into athletics from a gentlemanly desire to excel in them, and he commands the interest of all those who like to witness contests where there is no doubt of the earnestness and honesty of the competitors. This has hitherto made our intercollegiate rowing and base-ball and foot-ball take such a prominent hold on the public interest...