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BIJOU THEATRE. - Neil Burgess in "Vim...
BIJOU THEATRE. - Neil Burgess in "Vim...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard lacrosse team, after a hotly played contest, defeated by a score of 1 to 0 the Independents of Boston. The Independents show a great lack of training, and moreover they did not play together well, but still they played with vim, and their individual play was at times brilliant...
...have recognized its force. Then there is the conference committee. The advice of Demosthenes would be a good new year's resolution for this body - "action, action, action." At the risk of referring to a prickly "chestnut," we would ask the faculty to turn with new year's vim to the marking system. Toleration of this evil has been their policy too long. Let 1886 see some improvement in Harvard's back-woods musty method of grading students. For the students at large we would offer as a motto for the new year, let it be marked by greater earnestness...
...have at Harvard both riches and learning, but they will not go far toward bettering the real standard of Harvard, unless the students as a body respond with Yankee vim and perseverance. There are, of course, many men in our college who know why they are here, but this number ought to be increased...