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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strong team in the field, and back of this there is a great deal of enthusiasm manifested in cricket throughout the whole university. Harvard has more material from which to pick her team this year than we have, and this fact of having an abundance of good material has often helped the Crimson on to victory. The old adage, 'there's safety in numbers,' never applied to anything so forcibly as to athletics. The eleven is going to find a strong rival on Holmes' Field in June, and it will do well to bear this in mind from the start...
...quoted and contains not the slightest criticism of the management of the H. A. A. No one realizes more fully than we the hard conscientious work that the management of the Athletic Association has done through the winter and spring, and we gladly recognize it now, as we have often done before. It is the lack of enthusiasm among the men which we condemned yesterday and which we will continue to condemn as long as we have hope that our words will have effect...
...most famous clergymen and physicians rarely receive more than $20,000 annually. The thing to be considered is not the maximum prize but the chance of success. Literature is comparatively free from the risks of failure to which the merchant is exposed. The young clergyman, lawyer, or physician often has a hard struggle to earn his daily bread but an author who is even decently equipped rarely spends the year without earning something. The profession of literature is very attractive, and contains more men who love their work than any other. The fame of an author is far-reaching...
...remedied. It is well known what a bore it is to pay in cash the man who has charge of the courts, for if one does not forgot to supply himself with money when he dresses himself for tennis playing he seldom has the right change and often finds the collector unable to assist him. It would be much simpler and less annoying to have some small printed tickets which could be put on sale at the Co-operative and other places. These would not only be a great convenience to the tennis player, who could lay in a supply...
...rides. A number of Wall St. brokers collected around a solitary cab and a spirited bidding took place for its possession, The price which that cab brought was thirty-six dollars. It was a common occurrence for several men to charter a coach to take them to their houses, often paying as high as eight dollars per man. Social events of all kinds were postponed, as the livery stables refused to send out any scabs. Business was practically at a stand-still. Of the eleven hundred members of the stock exchange, thirty were present on Tuesday. Many restaurants were closed...