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Oxford beat Cambridge yesterday on the Thames from Putney to Mortlake in 22 minutes and 3 seconds. Our crew men take this as a good omen; for whenever Oxford has won in the last eight years Harvard...
...interest shown in the football squad is an encouraging omen for next season's success. The only way for Harvard to win in athletics is by making every man interested in some sport. The organization of class elevens, the football squad, and the proposed plan of managing the Weld boat house, are all steps toward this end. When the whole college plays football, when every man practises with the oar or the bat, there will be no lack of material and enthusiasm for university teams. Besides the certain improvement in Harvard teams resulting from this movement, the benefit...
...played on regular teams are sometimes called, has been greater this fall than ever before. Frequently during the regular foot ball season "scrub" games took place; and since Thanksgiving scarcely a pleasnt day has passed without witnessing one or two matches. This lively interest in football is a good omen for the game and the advantages arising from such informal matches are obvious. Often men who otherwise would never take the opportunity to learn the game, turn out to be very fine players from the prace ice they get in these contests, and the exercise they afford...
...play well together. We look with confidence for good work both at the bat and in the field, for the nine has done faithful work ever since Christmas. The college expects the nine to be victorious today, and this feeling of confidence among the men is certainly a good omen for the result of the contest...
...bulletin boards in Hollis and Stoughton - yes, and one in each entry even. Not that such a trivial matter as the existence of four bulletin boards, more or less, would cause such great joy to our hearts; but this change for the better is an omen, a presage of future improvements. For where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes be of a bridge over...