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...playing was seen. But the freshmen did not come forward as had been hoped, and, owing to several causes, the games did not arouse as much general interest as could have been wished. It may be doubted whether the fall is the best season for a contest of this sort. The athletic interest of the college is then centred in other things, and, moreover, the weather is not usually so favorable to good play then as in the spring. If a second series of class games could be arranged for the earlier part of the spring season, with the purpose...
...even though they feel unequal to a ride of two day's duration. Such members need go only as far as Ipswich, where all will take dinner, and while the others go on they can turn back, reaching home by 6 o'clock Saturday evening. A ride of this sort is especially enjoyable, and will, besides, furnish excellent practice for the hare and hound chase the club expect to hold on the following Thursday...
...outside world as the continuation of this harmful custom. To '85 belongs the honor of first abandoning it. Let not the charge be laid upon '86 of reviving the practice after once the precedent had been established to ensure its discontinuance. We feel assured that any attempt of this sort on the part of '86 would meet with the unanimous condemnation of all the rest of the college. The honor of Harvard College demands that the practice be stopped...
...classical texts in use in the college - and yet it is well known that the German one meets with in these books is a style of German by itself and difficult or impossible to acquire in any of the ordinary courses in German. Could not some course of this sort be established for the benefit of those who elect classical courses and have to read German notes...
...three university crews. The following concerning the same subject from the Tribune will undoubtedly be of interest Of Columbia a correspondent writes : "Taking the men in boating costume, it must be confessed that they do not strike one as a burly, rugged-looking set. They are not the sort of men that the 'Aggies' sent out in '71, that gained the prize for Amherst in '72, that carried the blue and white in '74, or that gained laurels for Harvard in '77, '78 and '79. There is a weedy look about some of the men, and a suggestion that their...