Word: recollections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been called to an editorial in the Yale News in regard to the '86 freshman foot-ball game, I should like to make some comment on the remarks contained therein. As none of the correspondence has been preserved I cannot give details, but I present the case as I recollect it. The News states of our team as follows...
...useless habit of making frequent changes in the textbooks, which is characteristic of some of the instructors, has been noticed by us before. Instructors should recollect the large expenses attending the term of study at Harvard, and should aim to reduce rather than add to these expenses. It seems strange that an instructor should not be able to tell whether or not the "print is too fine" or "the German too simple" for the men in his course before selecting the book. To be compelled to buy a book, merely to throw it aside in a week or more...
...upper class men who saw the close race in the fall of '81, cannot fail to recollect the interest the event aroused. It has been a matter of frequent comment that more attention is not paid to rowing by the students at large. At present all the interest is centered on the university and class crews, and but few men who are not candidates for these crews ever go on the water. In the English universities boating is one of the most popular amusements, and it is the general popularity of the sport that makes it valuable. The revival...
...Yale. '83 is the only class in college that can remember such a series. The last series was played under particularly unfavorable circumstances, at a time when we had an especially weak nine to pit against the strongest nine that Yale ever put into the field. Every senior will recollect with pride the plucky fight we then made for supremacy against overwhelming odds. The 2 to 1 game, the 3 to 0 game, and the 3 to 1 game, coming as they did after the disastrous 21-4 game, stand without a parallel in the history of college base-ball...
Washington's Birthday occurs February 22d. Today is February 22d. Harvard students may perhaps recollect this as an interesting fact in history...