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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About three weeks ago the candidates of the freshman nine began training. Over twenty men presented themselves as candidates for the team. Although this number is not more than one half as large as that which tried for last year's freshman nine, there are enough candidates to form a victorious team. But the outlook for a victory over Yale this year is very poor. The nine is not doing its duty either to its class or to its college. From twenty or more candidates at the beginning of January, the number has fallen off to less than the number...
...about time that the follies of the first term should be cast aside and some work accomplished. The class of '90 made an unenviable reputation in base-ball, and if '91 is trying to follow that illustrious example she can do no better than continue on her present foolish course. The members of the freshman class can deal with the matter after the defeats have come, but now the whole responsibility lies on those who are fit candidates for the team...
...never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home standards with them, and there is a decided difference between the present standards and those of the time when Harvard was a local institution After a man has been here some time he is influenced by oral traditions, and, among other things, boys of 18 or 19 play the same pranks as fourteen-year old freshmen did long ago. By these same...
...work has begun and the men have settled down after the Christmas recess, the various athletic teams are being talked about, and the base-ball men have begun to practice as much as possible in the gymnasium. The cage has not been finished yet and it seems doubtful at present whether it will be ready for use for some time, though it was expected that practice could begin there immediately upon the re opening of college. A rather erroneous opinion of Princeton's prospects for a nine seem to have become current, and one much too favorable to her. There...
...secretary is in receipt of applications for, 1st, a tutor to go to California at once, for five months; pay good. Applicant must be thoroughly competent to fit a boy for present requirements. Second, an instructor in Latin at a New England academy, to serve for a few weeks as substitute, beginning at once. Third, for an experienced teacher of English, to go to a California fitting school in August. Fourth, for one of equal capacity as regards French and German, also for August...