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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ankle in the first game with New York, but will soon be ready to play again. McClintock has been at home five weeks, recovering from a generally run down state of health, but has now returned to college, and will probably soon be ready to play again. Stagg has, mean while, been coaching Ridgeway, a fresh sophomore, for change pitcher. He is said to be a strong, well-built man, and to have some difficult curves which he controls well...
...enter compete. The fault does not lie with the officers of the association altogether, and perhaps not at all. The greater part of the blame certainly falls upon the men who withdraw. If they enter merely to have their names printed in the program, they are influenced by a mean motive; if they back out because they are afraid of some presumably superior athlete, they are influenced by a still meaner motive. They ought not to sign unless they intend to compete, and after signing they ought not to withdraw. It does not seem advisable to us even...
...disbelieving. Why do not all believe? Because this idea is a pagan idea grafted upon the pure stem of Christian faith. Christ does not offer anything so easy or so tempting. He offers to the world what the world, does not want. "Follow thou Me!" What does this mean? Do as I do; serve not yourself, serve the world. To this spirit the world opposes the precepts; blessed are the warmakers, for they shall inherit the kingdoms of the earth, etc., etc. The world does not want what Christ offers. The choir sang the following: "Sing of Judgment," (from Mendelssohn...
...perfectly obvious. The truth about Harvard is not sufficiently known outside. Our graduates are not so active, so loyal, as those of the rival by whom we instinctively measure ourselves. And above all, the Harvard clubs, which should be centers for enthusiastic missionary work, have too often come to mean nothing more than a dinner once a year, and the empty ceremony of singing "Fair Harvard" after it. If this is so, it is not wise policy to take it for granted that we will get along somehow and decry discussion. For discussion, in itself, is the remedy needed-unless...
...TAUSSIG.H. A. A.- Will all the men who mean to enter the B. A. A. meeting on February 15 please give their names to Mr. Lothrop at once, so that a special squad can be arranged for them. The Mott Haven team will meet as usual today...