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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nothing new need be said. Stagg and Dann are without doubt the best college battery in the country. The Princeton trainer when seen at the foot-ball game and asked about base-ball prospects, replied: "We have a cage now and will put out as good a nine as possible, but we will never be able to best Yale as long as Stagg and Dann are in college." Harvard's principal anxiety seems to be that she hasn't a pitcher to equal Stagg. Spencer at first and McConkey at second base gained a reputation for their excellent work last...
There is great need of a pair of scales in the Yale gymnasium. The University owns but one pair of scales, and that is in use by the 'Varsity crew...
...civic courage our race has led history; and why it should be so lacking here I do not know. Perhaps my vision of the facts is distorted. But it seems to me that, if it is not, this is the reform in "college opinion" which we most deeply need. If individuals cannot be sent to Coventry, no matter what they do, how can we ever get the tone of honor here which we might get-a tone in many respects much higher than that of the outer world...
Harvard is a great university. She has a past full of glory and a future full of promise, but she does need moral activity. Fearlessness will bring it, but where is fearlessness to be found...
...there is no ball at hand, and a wooden block has to be substituted with very unsatisfactory results; and sometimes the ice is suitable for skating several days before it becomes generally known about college. Now, would it not be a good scheme to start a hockey club? There need be no elaborate organization; the dues should be nominal, merely enough to keep a supply of balls. The club would be notified through the CRIMSON every day when there is skating, and a good game would thus be assured. I think that many men who are now indifferent to this...