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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consented to allow the base-ball nine to play against professional teams by way of practice. Thus the desire not only of the students but of many of the graduates of the college has been granted. We all know what half a dozen practice games with professional teams would mean for us and we all appreciate and are grateful for the action of the Committee. If now we lose year after year as we have been losing, we can attach no blame to anybody but ourselves. Practically all restrictions have been removed and there is no reason why we should...
...purpose to show that such practice would increase the chances of victory, but we do not mean to say that we should always beat Yale if allowed to practice with professionals, nor always succumb if the permission is refused. Practice with a superior team is always of the greatest benefit...
...sorry to note the mean spirit that shows itself in the laughter and jeers in which some persons have seen fit to indulge at the expense of the men trying for the University eleven. The work of the candidates is hard and trying even when they are encouraged by the men around them. But when their efforts are greeted with derision the work becomes tenfold harder and more discouraging. If anyone thinks that the work of the men deserves his jeers, nothing is easier than that he show his superiority by coming in the field and doing the work better...
...Freshmen and the honored customs, once so faithfully carried out, are vividly brought before our minds by the epithet even now applied to this first Monday of our year, namely "bloody"-and epithet which is one of our inheritances from our ancestors. The term has lost its ancient meaning and significance. We do not regret that the days of hazing, of pitched battle between the classes, of unseemly rioting are practically at an end; but even now in its degradation, the festival of the opening days of college is celebrated in a way which must heartily be condemned...
...steady practice and faithful training can do. We congratulate the members of the nine on their excellent work of Saturday, and we feel hopeful in regard to the championship. However, there is one thing to be guarded against; it has often been the stumbling-block of Harvard teams. We mean over-confidence. Yale on her own ground is a dangerous opponent, and such an opponent we shall have to contend against next Saturday. Harvard is now at the head of the intercollegiate league and it remains to be seen whether she can continue to hold her own. Only the most...