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...infielders, besides the regular double plays and stopping of grounders, have devoted much time to base sliding and to catching men between bases. In the latter department the work has been of a very poor order, while in the former it has not been of a much higher grade. The base sliding has consisted in sliding back to first base head first and sliding to second either head first or feet first. Considerable improvement ought to be shown in both departments by another week...
...state than the increased production of commodities, is the upholding of public morals. We are on the crest of a commercial age. Our foreign commerce alone exceeds our past records, three thousand, three hundred millions of dollars for the past year, and year by year it will mount higher, if we do not lose sight of economic laws and of the moral and human principles in which these laws in the last analysis are embedded...
There are no considerations of higher import than the just relations of capital and labor. The organization of capital, which is a normal and logical development of our times, should welcome reasonable laws which place wholesome restraints upon its activities, so that through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial...
Apropos of the Memorial Hall discussion we wish to offer a suggestion to the managers of the Union. There the price of board is considerably higher than. in most of the Cambridge eating places; and for that reason we expect to find the food much better. Of the quality offered we have little to complain, but it does seem that by a little judicious management the meals might be served fresher and hotter. There are certain articles of food quantities to be served when called for, as is apparently done in some cases at present...
...uplifting him prefers to profit by his ignorance. In the same manner the authority of birth attempts to assert itself. But this must inevitably give way to merit which at present will be measured in pecuniary terms, a condition not wholly desirable, but merely a stepping stone to something higher...