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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were many instances of sharp and accurate fielding done by both Nines, and the few spectators were often constrained to take their hands out of their pockets and applaud. Notwithstanding the numerous errors which our Nine were guilty of, the game showed plainly that practice alone is needed. The fact that much of the good playing was done by the new members, and that the "reliables" are responsible for the greater part of the muffing, is, to say the least, very encouraging. The batting of the Nine was certainly very good, and as this has hitherto been considered their weak...
...attention has been called to the very small number of rooms offered to the undergraduates this year, and, especially, to the fact that few of what are considered the best rooms are vacated. Nor can this be regarded as an evidence that there is to be less moving about this year than ordinarily. The complaints that are made are against the withholding of rooms when there is no intention of occupying, but merely a desire to hand them over to friends, or to put them on the market...
There needs little to be said to show the injustice of this practice, and we wish it were diminishing rather than increasing. The fact of living in a desirable room for three or four years ought to satisfy in itself, for it certainly does not confer the right of considering the room an heirloom to be handed down in perpetuity. But even worse than making over rooms to one's friends is the bartering for and selling of such rooms, often at a scarcity value. In condemnation of this we think nothing too severe can be said. It is difficult...
...this conservation of enthusiasm here at Harvard which we would insist on, and which the older members of our Faculty do not yet appreciate the urgency of. Even the younger members of that body are just beginning to recognize the fact that the enthusiasm of their undergraduate days has departed from our halls; and a bit of real, honest enthusiasm in any department of study is becoming more and more prized from its rarity. The present apathy that has supplanted the enthusiasm we may suppose once to have existed among the students of Philosophy is such that it has become...
...paper, in fact, appears to have been constructed on the hypothesis that the entire time of the student has been devoted, like that of the tutor, to the contemplation of a single subject. In the years when the elective system is open to the student, such a supposition is not unwarrantable; but the studies of the Freshman year are arranged, if we mistake not, with the purpose of giving the scholar a taste of many branches of study, in order that he may choose his future course with more certainty...