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...From a standpoint of justice as well as of courtesy, the college ought to extend as warm a welcome as possible to the visiting teams and applaud their good plays. This is the only gentlemanly way in which to enter into sport, and it is a custom which should prevail as if by instinct in every branch of Harvard athletics. In the past, there has been lurking an unfortunate tendency to look upon opposing teams as enemies, who should be downed by any fair means, and whose good points had absolutely no claim for recognition from Harvard men. Anyone with...
DEAR SIR-The Harvard Shooting Club hereby challenges the Yale Shooting Club to a match to be shot in Cambridge, Friday, May 29th. The same conditions to prevail as in the match of last fall, viz: Each team to be composed of five men, to shoot fifteen (15) clays and fifteen (15) keystones at unknown angles...
...work of the 'varsity and class crews, of the base ball nines and the cricket team has also been begun with unusual energy. In all our sports an earnest spirit which augurs well for the other, as well as athletic departments, of the college, seems to prevail...
...accord" may be likened to what men find hampering in their environments. Men think they cannot be temperate, pure, or good because their associations tend to make them intemperate, vicious or bad. These environments are really very easy to break through. A strong faith in a righteous purpose will prevail very quickly over these imaginary difficulties...
...pity is that such chances are so rare. The size and unwieldiness of this institution of learning is such as to prevent any but the slightest acquaintance from existing between student and instructor. The converse is the exception, not the rule. Therefore no persuasion of ours is necessary to prevail upon any one to seize this opportunity of coming in personal contact with one whom we so admire and esteem in the lecture room. The sole cause for regret is that the absence from Cambridge of so many of us prevents us from availing ourselves of this valuable privilege...