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...with Beaman, the former veteran third base-man of Harvard, at the bat. Beaman has played ball considerably this summer and had never failed to make at least one base hit in a game until a week ago Saturday, when he faced Smith at Fitchburg. Bound this time to punish Harvard's new pitcher, he made what seemed to be one of his old-time hits over short-stop's head. But Wiestling ran back swiftly, leaped in the air and captured the ball with one hand, a marvellous catch. In the first inning Harvard scored twice on hits...
...disturbance, class friction or discipline, as the year now drawing to a close. Naturally we seek a reason for this unexampled quiet. It is not due to any change in the character of our college government. Our faculty is just as alert as ever, and just as ready to punish offenders. Eighty-seven is evidently fully as spirited as the traditional sophomore, and eighty-eight is apparently fully as ready to stand up for its rights as the average freshman class. Can it be that the millennium is approaching, when the sophomore and freshman are to lie down together, like...
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was the custom in almost all American colleges to punish students by fines; and indeed it was not until this century that fines were abolished at Harvard. Some colleges were said to derive quite a revenue from this source, and were not, therefore, prone to abolish a system so profitable to themselves. The worse the students behaved, the better it was for the college. At Harvard there was a schedule of fifty-five offences punishable by penalties varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from...
...naively remarks in the happiest vein, "we also cheerfully admit that this conduct is discourteous and unjustifiable." His remedy for our practice of "putting on airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference and disregard-what common folks call 'a severe letting alone.' " Such remarks as these need but little comment from us. The fact is simply this: that the Spirit of the Times, has made a most unprovoked attack upon both Harvard and Yale...
...bill to punish prize fighting passed the Mississippi senate yesterday...