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...regular Brown battery. The fielding of the nine was very good, even for a nine which is noted for its fielding, while the batting was quite heavy. The only thing that marred the playing of the Harvard nine was the poor base-running, several points being lost by reckless coaching. In this one respect the playing of the nine should be much improved before we meet such opponents as Yale or Princeton, whose superiority in this respect is well known. The exhibition of umpiring was unparalleled, many of the decisions being so absurd as to excite the derision...
...impudently attempted to instruct students as to their duty in athletic matters. These and various other incidents that might be quoted, show that a spirit of rebellion is abroad among college faculties, and that unless the students are firm and inflexible their authority may be set at defiance by reckless and disorderly professors...
...joke also throws great discredit upon the college; for the public are only too ready to impute the actions of a few on the many, and do not stop to sift the good from the bad, tarring with the same brush all alike for the acts of a few reckless and dishonest youths...
...strangely altered tone of civility. But precisely why the ardor of the "shacker" in the pursuit of the wayward tennis ball should have suffered so sudden a cooling, and his numbers so sadly diminished, is not easy to see. We are perhaps forced to the conclusion that a reckless extravagance had characterized the players of tennis previous to the new rule, and that prices paid to "shackers" had ruled much higher then at present. Still we can hardly believe that the average paid "shackers" under the new arrangement is less than before. That shacking is losing its attractions...
HANOVER, N. H., Nov. 4, 1882. The friends of Dartmouth watched with considerable interest the incoming of the present freshman class. It was thought by many that the way in which the college troubles of last year were magnified and exaggerated by certain reckless newspaper correspondents, would be the means of decreasing the number of applicants for admission this fall. This would doubtless have been the case had it not been for the foresight of the trustees and faculty. A new course of study was prepared for candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, made up of prescribed electives...