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...individuals or in chorus. That this was not altogether done by freshmen is the greater pity. Indeed, the whole performance was so scandalous that our delegation seriously intended to remain away from the dinner which had been prepared for them. Yale has always rather gloried in this sort of thing, but she received so much censure on account of the methods she employed to win her Dartmouth games two years ago, and the freshman game the same year, that we hoped she had mended her manners; and last year justified our hopes in a certain degree. It is this intense...
...successes which most of our athletic teams have gained by labor and perseverance are the pitiful defeats of the Harvard cricket eleven. All our other athletic teams that use the name of their college go into regular practice and training, but the cricket eleven, although a desultory sort of practice is kept up, makes no pretense to keeping those rules and observances which the nine, the crew, or the lacrosse twelve consider as an absolute necessity for victory. It is a pity that Harvard should be represented on the crease in the way she has been...
...hard. The paper given yesterday by Mr. Wheeler was not easy; it was hard. But it was so arranged that every man who took the examination was able to show, not the poorest, but the best work of which he was capable. There were no catch questions of any sort whatever. The questions were broad, and represented every part of the work done in the course during the whole of the second half-year, and we do not commend too highly in saying that it is a model examination paper for this and other kindred courses...
...much credence has of late been placed in the rumors of discontent and discouragement among the members of the Yale crew. It was only a couple of years ago when the same sort of trouble which is brewing now broke out, but the outcome of it was the best 'varsity crew that Yale had ever put upon the water. In spite of all these reports of the Yale crew being exceptionally poor at the present time, early in April many eminent boating authorities predicted an exceptionally good crew in every respect. Even with such a crew as Harvard...
Miss Batchelder, the loyal actress who persisted in wearing the Harvard college colors above those of Columbia, although students of the latter institution had control of the theatre, has an extensive acquaintance with the Harvard boys and they regard her as a sort...