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...game yesterday was a most lifeless and uninteresting exhibition of ball playing. The fielding was slovenly and the batting very weak, Harvard making but seven hits with a total of fourteen off such an easy pitcher as Buell. Manley at right field was extremely slow in starting after the ball and allowed Trinity to make two hits which should both have been out. C. Paine pitched a fairly good game, striking out seven men and keeping down Trinity to five hits with a total of six. On the whole Whittemore, Cook and Dickinson put up the best game for Harvard...
...wish to call the attention of the sophomore class to the half-hearted support given the baseball team in the game last Monday with the freshmen. The work of the '96 team was lifeless and the men lacked confidence. This was in a great measure due to the lack of support. Let the class turn out this afternoon and see what it can do to help win the game. A number of enthusiasts in the neighborhood of first base have been known to work wonders...
...errors that were made, bad as they were, were not the worst feature of the game. By good pitching the Holy Cross men were held down to two runs, and, by any ordinary playing, the 'varsity would easily have beaten out this score, but their aggressive work was simply lifeless. They lost a chance to score in the first with two men on bases and no one out, and, from that time on, they went to sleep. Toward the close of the game, they realized that something was needed, but seemed unable to throw any vigor into their play. However...
...worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural position. It would be far pleasanter to have appearances left to the reader's imagination than to have all pleasant ideas of the characters dispelled by such lifeless and ridiculous pictures. The two leading articles of the number are the story "Which Miss Charteris." and "Ice Yachting." The former is a love story which makes pleasant enough reading, but which is nothing at all out of the usual line of love stories, "Ice Yachting" is principally an account of this...
After the unusual excellence of the October and November numbers, the December Monthly is a disappointment. The graduate article is interesting from its very brilliant and enthusiastic style, but it is rambling and not pointed; a "first paper" on Cardinal Newman is scholarly but somewhat lifeless; and the "story" of the number is a delicate character-sketch, but lacks a visible cause for existence. The verse is much better than the prose, however, especially the "battle song" by Herbert Bates, ('90). It is to be hoped that so good an innovation as a "graduate poem," so to speak, will...