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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...saving your pennies and denying yourselves candy and chewing-gum ever since you entered college! But what would a man not sacrifice for his college! Harvard men have always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety shall surpass all. We can safely say that never since the organization of an university crew, has any freshman class contributed so generously as the present one. Fifty-eight dollars! Ninety, Mother Harvard flushes with pardonable pride as she pats you on your little head and sighs with deep emotion. "He is my noblest...
...proposed association will be far better for Harvard than the existing one is. To be sure, only four championship games will be played in Cambridge, instead of five, as heretofore. But every one of these games will be of the utmost interest. The games with the smaller colleges have never commanded much attention, as can be seen by the small number of spectators attending them. The number of college games need not necessarily be lessened, for practice games can be arranged which would be as interesting as the championship games have been. In games with the smaller colleges we have...
Last night Colonel Bancroft announced his intention of running cars again to-day, and without interruption, hereafter. The strike will probably not last over two or three days more. The company is determined not to yield; the strikers cannot prevent their places being filled by new men; and violence never is an ultimately successful thing, especially if it is illegally resorted to. In three days the strikers will have either gone back to their posts, or will have none to go back to; their only satisfaction and that a brief one, will be to see the green conductors ringing...
...same spirit as that which animated a freshman, who saw an unpatriotic classmate betting against the Harvard nine on the game of the 15th, to "run around, offering odds of two to one on Harvard to the muckers, at the end of the fourth inning." It was the "never say die" of Barnaby Rudge's raven over again...
...confess seems to me much of the partisan hackwork style of literature, make up a considerable bulk of remains - and then much of his work was in the form of speeches. For the rest, the essay seems to me good, especially as I agree thoroughly with the writer, and never more so than when he implies that Maculay just missed being very great...