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...plays and between the innings, especially when Harvard is behind. There is just one thing in connection with the cheering that ought to be spoken of, although we feel that it should be unnecessary to speak of it to Harvard men. Several graduates of the University who watched a recent baseball game on Holmes Field expressed themselves after the game as thoroughly disgusted with the spirit in which the undergraduates applauded the playing. All idea of fair play seemed to them to have been lost in the desire to win, the errors of Harvard's opponents being loudly cheered...
...used to be a powerful incentive to the Crew. Why the custom was ever abandoned it is difficult to see. It probably died away gradually with the subsiding interest taken here in athletics, and the same deplorable apathy which has come over all our athletic interests in recent years has prevented its renewal. Now that we are beginning to rouse ourselves again and to see how wretchedly indifferent we have been, let us bring back as many of these old customs as we can. Let us once more line the bank of the river and cheer the Crew as heartily...
...recent meeting of the University Gymnasium Team, Ralph Derr '97, of Pennsylvania was elected captain for next year. It was decided that an exhibition be given during commencement week in the Brokau Tank consisting of flying, double and balancing trapeze work. There will also be an exhibition of diving and a tub race. Two swimming races one under water and one above will also take place. This exhibition will be made an annual event in order to show to everyone this important facility and its use by the students...
...trustees of the University of Illinois have been indicted by the grand jury of Champaign County for neglecting to raise the American flag over the university buildings, in accordance with a recent act of the legislature. There are laws which fall into disuse, and statutes that are mentioned only with contempt; but it is a pleasure to feel that our flag laws are not made to be laughed at and disregarded-but to be respected and obeyed. The sentiment they embody is too important to be trifled with...
...book reviews include a review of John T. Morse's Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes and reviews of recent publications on history...