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...smaller this year than is customary, partly owing to the difficulty of obtaining a respectable number of paying spectators at the games played upon our unfenced grounds, and partly from the fact that the undergraduate purse has showed great reluctance to loose its strings when called upon to help swell the subscription list. To relieve the association from its embarrassment we would suggest that a "benefit" game be played on Holmes, feeling sure that the reputation of our team is strong enough to attract a large audience,- to the great profit of the somewhat depleted coffers of the club...
...boat crossed the line a length and a half to the good, in 11 m. 13 1-2s., followed by '85 in 11m. 24 1 2s; '88, in 12m. 29 1-2s.; and '86 in 13m. Both these latter boats narrowly escaped being swamped by the swell from the referee's tug, which had steered across the course ahead of the two last crews...
...with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers only in the intellect of which it is the expression. And as the stream, choked by what it has collected, is stemmed and blocked, until the rains swell its torrent and burst the barrier; so the will, enslaved by its own surrender, frets impotently in its captivity, until the rain of grace from heaven floods the heart and sets it at liberty. For a free man, because he is free, may make himself a slave; but once a slave, because...
...heroic endurance of 300 Harvard men under a pelting rain of two hour's duration, the brass band never flinched from its duty. It had agreed to escort Carl Schurz and the Harvard delegation, and that agreement was kept, even at the cost of a thorough soaking of the swell new uniforms, there worn for the first time. The next evening the band paraded in the Republican torchlight procession in Melrose. A barge conveyed the twenty-five members to Melrose and back, taking an hour and a half for the journey each way. It is said on excellent authority that...
...this noisy nuisance, thankfully let it be said, is now over, and only the minor noises will interrupt the solitude of the ancient square until the nine begins to roll up its victories next spring. Then our Western friend will learn what real noise is: yes, and help swell the clamor, too, unless we are greatly mistaken...