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...will give our team their great superiority. The management is very active in promoting improvement in this part of the play, and, with a generous number of candidates, their success seems already insured. Next year, however, they will meet many powerful opponents who will endeavor in every way to wrest our present advantage from us. Let it not be said that, from lack of material or interest, Harvard has suffered this department of her athletics to lose the high position it has already attained...
...years. '86, however, has at last changed the aspect of affairs, for it has awakened and deserved the interest of Harvard by the steady and determined efforts of her eleven. The result will be that this interest will do wonders next fall in encouraging and aiding the freshmen to wrest the class championship from our rivals...
...that in a book of mine, in treating collectively of all forms of luxury, indulgence, recreation, and amusement, I say of them collectively that 'temperance is evidently fitting, and therefore a duty,' and that it is 'better than abstinence, unless there be specific reasons for abstinence.' " An attempt to wrest language as clear as this to an argument in favor of moderate drinking is argumentative hypocrisy. We speak plainly, because we feel that Dr. Peabody has been grossly insulted by his opponents; one of them going so far as to declare him "a corrupter of morals and unfit...