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...Dalton, Mgr.CLASS GAME.-Will the following men please act as ushers for '95 to keep back the crowd at the class game: Briggs, Fairbank, Brice, Grew, Peabody, Whit- man, Lawton, Whittemore, Bingham, MacNear, Wheatland, Spalding...
...Mott Haven team will leave from in front of the Cooperative at ten o'clock this morning. The work of the team has at all times been faithful and spirited, and every man can be counted upon to spend every whit of his power to bring victory to Harvard on Saturday. Few students can be in New York to cheer there; nearly all can gather this morning to show, by an enthusiastic send-off, their confidence in the team. It gives an encouragement whose force is by no means spent in the interval before the games...
...rather for unhesitating support. Because things look bad, there is all the more reason why the University should show its appreciation of honest effort. We believe that Harvard men have as much pluck as Yale men, that the quality of courage and persistence produced in Cambridge is not a whit below that in New Haven. But now is a time for Harvard pluck to be proved, for Harvard to make every one believe that she is not dismayed because the odds are heavily against her, but that she will give her team the heartiest support, when they are placed...
...Nothing will invite disaster more quickly than the assumption that, because we have won, we shall win. Every bit of experience that Harvard has gained in her past debates ought to be consulted; every method which has been found good ought to be so thoroughly studied that not a whit of its efficacy shall be lost at the time of the decisive debate; and every improvement, shown to be possible by weakness in past debates, ought eagerly to be carried out. The wisdom gathered from past debates can be a great factor in winning the next debate, and, indeed...
...these lines, Harvard and Pennsylvania made their agreement, which is not a whit less strong for purity in athletics than the undergraduaate rule, and which saves the university feature of university teams. It is to this agreement that the rules adopted last week by the Intercollegiate Football Association almost exactly conform. That Yale has seen the impracticability of the undergraduate rule, we are heartily glad. The fact remains, however, that Yale has voted in mass meeting to abide by the rule till next January, independent of the action of other universities, and that one man on the eleven...