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This is what the Lasell Leaves, says about Memorial: "At dinner all reserve is cast off. Sallies of wit pass from one to another, and jokes are cracked at nay one's expense. All the men are on a level. Beck Hall and Holworthy sit at the table with College House, and pleasant remarks are exchanged by this representative of Boston elite, and that earnest, hard-working son of some country town...
...things which sound curiously now-a-days Blackheath was then, as now, the great centre of metropolitan foot-ball, although for every match played then on a Saturday afternoon there are now half-a-dozen. Those were the days of "hacking," and scenes which were frequent enough then, nay, which were almost inevitable, would not be tolerated now in the rowdiest of grounds. It was then by no means an uncommon sight to see the ball flying away in one part of the field, while the forward players were crowded together in a heap hacking at each others' shins like...
...greater opportunity of following up any special task than he had now. Subjects which did not tell had now no chance. It was very necessary, therefore, that they should ask themselves whether they were following a wise system or not. A young man might pass creditably, nay, with distinction, through school and college, and find himself when he came to age unable to speak any language but his own, and ignorant of any branch of science, although, perhaps proficient in mathematics, Latin and Greek. Such an education, they might say with Locke, fitted a man for the university rather than...
...Nay, 'twas but the bow of Cupid...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is now a matter of history, nay even of tradition, in the athletic annals of the college that a freshman nine has never beaten Yale. Yet there are a few now living who can remember that '81 was the last class to beat Yale in base-ball, and in view of a coincidence which shall later appear, it may not be uninteresting to '86 to know just how the thing was done...