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...Brown this afternoon the championship pennant will float on Holmes Field next year. We have good reason to feel confident as to the result, but let there be no relaxation on the nine's part. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," says the old proverb, and Harvard at different times has had the truth of the maxim sorely impressed upon her. The championship undoubtedly hangs upon this game, for if defeated by the weakest club in the inter-collegiate league, how can we expect to overcome our strongest opponents? But defeat we do not expect...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- We are told that "mistakes will happen in the best regulated families;" but this well-worn, and it may be very true proverb can by no means excuse the tone which the Lampoon has recently adopted in its editorials relating to the Advocate. While it may not generally be known, yet it must be very easily guessed, that the writer of these editorials attempts at sarcasm and wonderful successes at contemplibleness, is at once the controller of the Lampoon editorial columns, and one of the aspiring editors of the proposed Literary Magazine. I am, it is true...
Apropos the recent two successive defeats of the "Memorial Halls" by the "Lead Heels," it is suggested that the former nine must be getting impatient, for the old proverb declares that "patient waiters are no losers...
There is an old proverb that "charity begins at home." It the President would only look around at the poor Harvard students who have been here year after year, and yet know him only through the newspaper reports of what he is doing elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...
HERRICK.We know more about almost everything in the universe than we do about the nature of dreams. And yet the reverse of this ought certainly to be true. Experientia docet, says the old proverb; but dreams, which have been the common experience of all, ever since the race began its existence, are as incomprehensible today as though they were phenomena vouchsafed to man but once in a century...