Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate says that our failure can in one instance be laid at our own door; in another at the faculty's but does not say what the mistakes are. We would say that the error of the students lies in the toleration of an unwise state of college opinion. What the Advocate thinks we do not know, but it seems likely that it must believe as we do in the matter, since the root of our misfortunes is admitted generally to be this same false and evil point of view. We look forward with interest to the next number...
Brown University men say that they will be unable to enter the proposed league with Tufts and Boston, but will play independently...
...practice on, and is obliged to practice on a wretched bit of turf back of Divinity Hall. Now, why cannot cricket have its share in the admirable grounds owned by the University? Why cannot the team players set up their wickets in the upper end of Holmes Field, say two afternoons in the week. Such an arrangement would not interfere with the success of a single sport; certainly not at this time of the year. If this were possible, it would probably be the means of adding one more to our long list of intercollegiate teams, and would give...
...little attention to. The Harvard cricket eleven made a record for itself last spring which deserves substantial recognition, inasmuch as it won every game of the spring series. It has unfortunately become the custom here at Harvard for men rather to look down upon this excellent sport and to say with a would-be-knowing air, "Pshaw, the cricket eleven never does anything!" Even were this assertion true-which it is not-whose fault is it? We would like to put the question, "What has ever been done among the students at large to encourage or help those...
...first number of the Harvard Monthly for this year appeared yesterday. It is hardly necessary to say before proceding to the review of its contents, that the monthly has now firmly established its footing in the literary world of the university. It must be very gratifying to the gentlemen who have carried on the paper since the departure from college of those who formed it, that the latter's expectations have been fully realized. No one would to-day assert that the Monthly is superfluous, and everyone feels the elevating influence it has had on the rest of serious college...