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Harvard was now playing five substitutes and the attack of the Indians could not be withstood. Hudson kicked one goal from the field, and would have done more but for the end of play, when his team was gaining at will...
...present; H. S. Potter, L. Thompson, S. K. Wood and T. C. Tebbetts all '92. Toasts were to our alma mater, Romulus and Remus, the Ruins, and these were responded to by the members. It is to be hoped that the only Harvard Club on the continent which has withstood the vicissitudes of two years may be kept up and we now look forward to '93 to do its duty...
...first number of volume thirteen of the "Lampoon" came out Friday. The present seems a fitting occasion upon which to extend congratulations to our sister journal. The "Lampoon" has had a hard task before it during the years of its existence, but has withstood all storms manfully, and now has a secure place among the college papers. We believe that the way in which "Lampy" shows his disapproval of certain acts on the part of our authorities is well adapted to the lessening of such acts, for the irony of the jester - whose person always is held sacred - does more...
August 29: My pupills all came to me ys day to desire vy might ceas learning Hebrew; I withstood it with all ye reaso I could, yet all will not satisfy ym. Thus am I requited for my love; & thus little fruit of all my prayers bears for yr good...
...walks of life, and especially in the department of literature. He then humorously alluded to the future meeting in 1936 of the class of '86 over in some room in Weld, and spoke of those who would then be major-generals or privates, according as they had withstood or not the temptations of their life...