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...pennant emblematic of the inter-collegiate base-ball championship of America will be unfurled upon Holmes Field. The occasion will be noteworthy from the fact that Harvard has won this coveted trophy this year for the first time since the formation of the league. Years ago, when the Yale-Harvard series was the only series played to determine the question of the championship, the Harvard nine was often victorious over its New Haven rivals. Since the formation of the present league, however, our teams have met with a continual run of ill success that has been most discouraging. Year after...
...Yale-Harvard freshman game is not so pleasant a theme to handle as the two victories we have commented upon. We have been waiting now for many a long year to chronicle the winning of a freshman championship. With each incoming class we have revived our hopes for this championship, only to meet with fresh disappointments. Eighty-six and eighty-seven won each a game from their New Haven rivals. Eighty-eight has failed to do even this. The Boston Herald characterizes the present freshman nine as a "gigantic failure." Without meaning to be harsh in our criticism...
...train for the Yale-Harvard game starts at 9 A.M. Saturday. Anyone wishing cards, cigars, or cigarettes to use on the trip, can find them in best qualities at Leavitt and Pierce...
There is undoubtedly something repugnant in a blue book, the mere sight of one is apt to excite our animosities; they have an effect upon us something akin to that produced by a Yale-Harvard foot ball match-they dampen our ardor. However, like many another thing here at Harvard, they are a necessity, and we have no choice but to support the book stores at this period of the year by a liberal patronage in blue books. Someone is made happy, at any rate. Let us not be so selfish as to want to take away this pleasure...
...Acta Columbiana, the representative the following appeal for a combination Harvard-Yale-Columbia race each spring: "In one of our last year's issues we seriously mooted the advisability of merging the Harvard-Columbia and Yale-Harvard boat-races into one grand combination of Harvard-Yale-Columbia. In the issue to which we refer, we further suggested that the representative papers of the respective Colleges ventilate their opinions upon the advisability of such a measure. The number, however, in which this editorial appeared was published in August, and in all probability our Harvard and Yale exchanges failed to observe...