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...There are many in Ninety-eight who would gladly have discouraged the conduct in which they were yet participants, and who can recognize the distinction between natural enthusiasm and its unpardonable extravagances. All, however, must suffer with the few; and so it must always be as long as the reckless, riotous members of the class are allowed to determine the actions of the whole. The freshmen have shown themselves unworthy of any great confidence, and must not now be surprised if little is placed in them...
...charges of reckless extravagance which have been made against the Junior Promenade at Yale are replied to at length, and very satisfactorily, in the present number of the Yale Alumni Weekly...
...Saturday. The playing was very slow and the game most uninteresting. The Harvard team lacked life and snap. Captain Wiggin was away and his place in centre field was filled by Hayes. Owing to injuries to both O'Malley and Scannell, Corbett caught. His throwing to bases was very reckless and he had five passed balls. Highlands's pitching was fairly effective, confining Brown to five hits, with a total of seven. For Harvard, Dickinson and Cook played the best game in field, but the whole team seemed to lack snap and played in a half-hearted, careless manner...
...enough to the eleven to put a winning team into the field next Thursday. In the second half, however, Yale clearly outclassed Harvard in every respect. Harvard's great fault then, as before, was too deliberate playing. She was far too cautious considering the seriousness of the situation. More reckless dash and head-long impetuosity were the qualities which the occasion demanded, but Harvard had no captain to rally her men and infuse into them this winning spirit. A great mistake was made in not trying around the end plays oftener, and also in failing to take advantage of what...
...reports of the expenses of the various athletic teams for the past year have all an indication that nothing which could in any way add to the equipments or the comfort of the teams has been left unbought. There has not been, it is true, such reckless expenditures of money as characterized the reports of the year before, but the reports sufficiently show that the financial management of the teams, taken all together, has not been so economical as it might have been. We make no accusation against the management of any one team, nor do we intend to specify...