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Bowling, the great "Freshman elective," is being carried on in the gymnasium bowling allies with great vim and enthusiasm. The alleys are in constant use every afternoon, not one of the eight ever being vacant for more than five minutes at a time...
...call the attention of every freshman to the necessity of having a rousing delegation from '88 accompany the team to New Haven. It is well known that the Yale men always do everything in their power to "rattle" opposing teams, and our men will play with much more vim if the feel that the class supports them heartily. Let all who possibly can, be present at the game and show Yale that we have as much esprit decoros as they have...
...there was no fit substitute to take Thompson's important position. The team had also lost two entire night's sleep, coming and returning from Cambridge, through their foolish buoyancy of spirit, a fact that of itself would account for the loss of considerable of that snap and vim, so valuable on a foot ball field. You may accordingly see that Pennsylvania had the same excuse for their poor showing on Saturday as Princeton put forth on the occasion of their 4-0 game against Stevens Institute. Harvard needs but little sympathy. more especially as, in the expressed opinion...
...victory over Brown last week has had the effect of encouraging the team and the college at large at a time when such encouragement is most gladly received. Although the Amherst nine is considered much stronger than our first opponent, if the team plays with the earnestness and vim which it displayed in the game with Brown last week, a close, and we hope a victorious game will be the result. The contest will be interesting and exciting, and will undoubtedly deserve the support which it is sure to receive...
...with more faithful and harder work than has been done by their predecessors, they will have great probability of success. Let them once for all decide that they will not follow in the, in more than one sense, "beaten track" of former freshman nines, and add to this the vim and earnestness that are sure to bring victory...