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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anyone who has watched intercollegiate athletics among the past few years, it is evident that the defeats which Harvard has suffered at Yale's hands are not to be attributed to Harvard ill luck. There can no longer be any doubt of the fact that Yale is essentially a more athletic college than Harvard. The reason for this is patent. The social conditions at Yale attract athletes; the social conditions at Harvard repel them. Yale's very being is bound up in athletics. She sacrifices everything for athletic victory...
...last year to enable us to comprehend the complete degeneracy of the artificial system which was ruling us. Last June was the culmination of the bad effects of that system. At the opening of college this fall there was latent a real determination to alone for our past disgrace. This feeling has now become a frank, open one and already there is an upheaval of the old forms. If every senior class will hold to worthy ideals, as eighty-eight does now, we may expect in the future victory and optimism, instead of defeat and pessimism...
...will prove of great interest to all historians and playgoers. It is entitled "The Playgoers' Year-Book; Story of the Stage in Boston, for the Year 1887." As all the leading dramatic attractions visit Boston, the book will in reality be a review of the American stage for the past year. Paris and London have reviews of this character, but this is the first one ever issued in America. It is written by Mr. Charles E. L. Wingate, Harvard '83, formerly news editor of the Harvard Herald, now of the Boston Journal, and that it will prove a success...
...power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain, but only the good begining of something which they intend to make better. Harvard is still growing. It has a future as well as a past, and the most remarkable things about its life to-day is the pluck, the true grit, with which its sons face the music of the present...
...thrown around hime, his book open on his knee, his thin face and tranquil, hopeful eyes turned toward the western sky. He is thinking of the days that are to be. He hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward the west is something good to see, and is typical of the college life to-day.- Henry C. Badger, in Magazine...