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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...GRIFFIN.ALL candidates for the '97 baseball team be out today without fail at 3.30. Any man who is unable to come speak to me personally beforehand. Game with Cambridge High...
...need to bestir themselves in order to compare favorably with the other college catchers. In the pitching department there is a wealth of material. Bradley, providing his arm holds out, will do most of the pitching in the championship games. Altman will be called in should Bradley's arm fail him. Next on the list would be Easton, a left-handed twirler; he is a freshman and great things are expected of him before graduation. The other candidates are Wilson, Hitzrot and Joul...
Above all other poetry, the Divine Comedy is the record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover...
...course of lectures on "Historic Harvard," such as was suggested in the communication to yesterday's CRIMSON, could not fail to be very popular. The interest which the undergraduate feels in this subject is shown by the favorable reception given to "Harvard by an Oxonian." If an account of the University by a stranger has proved so acceptable, how much greater would be the interest in a course of lectures by some of the men who have themselves seen Harvard as she was in the old times, and have lived in constant and intimate association with her history and traditions...
...these sentiments. The steady improvement in Yale's scholastic atmosphere is much more than keeping pace with her athletic prestige - and the fact is realized here, if not elsewhere. Yale may not be successful in the next few debates - but a sentiment has been aroused such as cannot fail to be of ultimate immeasurable good to Yale. The Junior Prom. report just issued shows that the democratic spirit here is not waning. There is a heavy decrease in expenses, yet the surplus is much larger than usual, due to increase in individual subscriptions. This will be devoted to worthy class...