Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard wins in the game with Brown this afternoon the championship pennant will float on Holmes Field next year. We have good reason to feel confident as to the result, but let there be no relaxation on the nine's part. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," says the old proverb, and Harvard at different times has had the truth of the maxim sorely impressed upon her. The championship undoubtedly hangs upon this game, for if defeated by the weakest club in the inter-collegiate league, how can we expect to overcome our strongest opponents...
...ours, what is the most fitting way in which to celebrate, and to express to the nine the gratification which the college feels towards it for its efforts in bringing to Cambridge the pennant which has so long graced the grounds of our old-time rivals? First of all, let every man attend the game and support the nine in a manner befitting its deserts, and when the game is finished and the victory ours, let there go up from old Holmes a shout which will show that Harvard "spirit" is not yet dead. But one word,- let...
...improvement, however, has been in overcoming to a great extent the bad hang which the crew had on both the catch and the finish. This change is most encouraging. The men still fail to get their weight on the stretchers, and after rowing well for a short distance they let up too much. This last fault is being gradually overcome. Most of the men ought to get in somewhat more work with their legs. Eighty-eight has been seriously handicapped by the want of a regular coach; under these circumstances the men deserve much credit for getting into their present...
...motive whereby men are prompted to write from very pleasure, and from their actually having something to write about. Here at Harvard, literary activity is the exception rather than the rule. Still it is true that in this respect, the present year goes far ahead of many previous years, Let us hope that next year will outstrip this. No persons would welcome greater literary ability in the college at large more than the at present over-worked editors of the college papers. We believe that in saying this, we are speaking not only for ourselves, but for the editors...
...likely to make such a fully developed manhood as a college education certainly ought to make. To "grind" is, it is true very laudable, but to grind all the time is not so. Grind some of course, but read also, converse, be sociable, take recreation, above all don't let books control the mind in all its active hours, think yourself and aim at some originality...