Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the spring is fairly here,- or ought to be, if we accept the calendar,- our thoughts naturally turn to the nine and their prospects for the season which is just opening. Of all our athletic associations, and we say this with no disparagement to the crew, the Mott Haven team, or the lacrosse and tennis men, the nine seems to have as good, if not a better, chance of winning for Harvard that rarity of rarities, a championship, than any other of our athletic organizations. So many of the members of last year's team remain in college that...
...Yale nine at New Haven, and the winning of the Mott Haven cup on the same eventful day. But, even on this great occasion, the college exulted without firecrackers and horns; and, furthermore, this was the only celebration of the year. Now, however, a class victory is sufficient to turn the college into an uproar, and often the boom of the firecracker is heard in the yard merely when some individual is festive on his own account. And yet this noisy sort of hilarity is forbidden by the regulations. The connection between these forbidden demonstrations and the Athletic committee...
...freshman and junior crews did not row on the river yesterday afternoon. Both freshman crews will row this morning, using their one barge in turn...
...Spring," sings the poet, "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Boswell's fancy was fixed on love during the whole twelve-month. His letters, unfortunately, do not begin until he is twenty, so that we are precluded from any view of his real life until that time; but after that age, we can trace, with a good deal of accuracy, the course of his thoughts. In the very first letter we plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs...
...with high local reputations, and it is upon them that the hardest work in athletics falls. Very few promising men appear in athletics after the freshman year. Thus the preparatory schools are in reality the test of our weakness, or our strength. It is to them that we should turn our attention to alleviate our present distress. This spring should witness a greater number of contests between our freshmen and second nines, and the various school teams. If the school teams could be made to feel that the eyes of the Harvard management of athletics were on them, there would...