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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LETTER has been received from the Secretary of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association saying that the prizes, of which Harvard is entitled to four, will be ready at the end of the present month...
...with all due respect for the author of the editorial from which I have quoted, and his "knowledge of facts," allow me to question the accuracy of his information, and in justice to the janitors previously mentioned, present the other side of the case to your notice. The Rules and Regulations laid down by the College authorities for the guidance of the janitors in the duties of their position contains the following clause...
...better for that audience of two thousand people to witness those five events on last Saturday than to have to go about begging men to enter. If we, the largest college in America, are not ready for athletics, I think that they had better be given up for the present. It is absurd to suppose that a few men, no matter how efficient they may be, can bolster up athletics if there is not interest enough to make more than nineteen men enter. Do the men want more costly prizes? If they do, there must be an annual assessment...
...Freshman Entry-Book will be kept open until Saturday morning to allow every opportunity for men to enter. At the present writing only four names appear on its pages, and if '82 do not come to time better, we shall fear that they are on a par with the upper classes in muscular inactivity...
...college man, and a man of the world as well; but my favorite resorts are summer watering-places and college societies. I was created when Eve was and have lived ever since, though I never grow old. I am a sort of Phoenix. My occupations are various, but at present I am stumping the State for Butler. You have never heard of me, I dare say! Pity! pity! time you did! Let me introduce myself. My name is Humbug; and this old fellow here is an old boxing-teacher of mine, who taught me so well that I used...