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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...they will see, at any rate, well-contested games, and, in all probability, many victories for Harvard; although it is now reported that Yale has finally decided to win the college championship for 1874. If this is really the feeling of the College, what must be the disappointment to find that this year the men, while sweltering in the July heat, either at home or at the sea-shore, are doomed to enthusiasm over a mere "elegant" newspaper report of the contest between the College "boys," who occupy, in the depths of the reporter's mind, an indefinite position somewhere...
...Springfield last summer must find it hard to believe that there is anything else which can rouse such an enthusiasm for boating affairs as was stirred up by the race at that time. There were far more Freshmen at Springfield than men from any other one class, and the interest was such that there was not a man but wished either to be on the crew himself or to express his sympathy with the oarsmen. The result of the race by no means killed this interest, and the manner in which the defeat was borne gave some idea...
...ever doomed to find his labor vain...
Come unto us; here ye at last find rest...
...having many lingering regrets for the somewhat inconsiderate determination at which we so hastily arrived. We think that these are shared by quite a large number of our fellow-students, who are curious to see how our men would stand in comparison with those of other colleges, and to find out whether we are really much worse off for our lack of collegiate instruction in writing and speaking, which we have so often been called upon to deplore; and by a few, perhaps, who, though certainly believing that Harvard would make but a poor show in the contest, wish that...