The Junior League schedule was not made up, because of absentees among the representatives, but it has doubtless been arranged by this time. The number of games will be greater this year than before, and as a matter of interesting record this table of matches played since the organization of the League is here given:
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| 1888. | ||||||||
| Cambridge H. and L. | 20 | .. | 4 | .. | 136 | ... | 6 | 0 |
| Boston Latin | 12 | .. | 17 | .. | 140 | 15 | 5 | 1 |
| Roxbury Latin | 10 | .. | 1 | 1 | 66 | 56 | 4 | 2 |
| English High | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 20 | 78 | 2 | 3 |
| Stone, Nichols, and Hales | 4 | .. | 5 | 1 | 46 | 52 | 1 | 3 |
| Hopkinsons | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | 18 | 126 | 1 | 5 |
| Nobles | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 9 | 108 | 0 | 5 |
| 1889. | ||||||||
| Cambridge H. and L. | 11 | 3 | 6 | .. | 105 | 16 | 3 | 0 |
| English High | 3 | .. | 7 | .. | 46 | 32 | 2 | 1 |
| Boston Latin | 7 | .. | 4 | .. | 58 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| Roxbury Latin | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 24 | 68 | 2 | 2 |
| Hopkinsons | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 103 | 0 | 4 |
| 1890. | ||||||||
| Cambridge H. and L. | 10 | .. | 8 | .. | 91 | 35 | 5 | 1 |
| English High | 10 | .. | 7 | .. | 88 | 26 | 4 | 1 |
| Hopkinsons | 7 | .. | 8 | .. | 74 | 52 | 3 | 2 |
| Manual Training | 6 | 1 | 4 | .. | 57 | 48 | 1[1] | 3 |
| Roxbury Latin | 5 | .. | 5 | 1 | 52 | 80 | 1 | 4 |
| Boston Latin | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 122 | 0 | 4[2] |
| 1891. | ||||||||
| Hopkinsons | 17 | .. | 7 | .. | 130 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Manual Training | 9 | 1 | 5 | .. | 79 | 56 | 2 | 2 |
| English High | 2 | .. | 12 | .. | 60 | 48 | 2 | 2 |
| Boston Latin | 4 | .. | 2 | .. | 32 | 58 | 2 | 2 |
| Cambridge H. and L. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 135 | 0 | 4 |
| 1892. | ||||||||
| Hopkinsons | 12 | .. | 4 | .. | 88 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| Manual Training | 2 | .. | 3 | .. | 24 | 34 | 1 | 1[3] |
| English High | 5 | .. | 4 | .. | 46 | 52 | 2 | 1[4] |
| Cambridge H. and L. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 10 | 34 | 1 | 2[5] |
| Boston Latin | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 16 | 56 | 0 | 4 |
| 1893. | ||||||||
| English High | 11 | .. | 3 | .. | 78 | 56 | 4[6] | 0[7] |
| Manual Training | 19 | .. | 5 | .. | 134 | 28 | 4[8] | 1 |
| Boston Latin | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | 30 | 68 | 2 | 3 |
| Newton High | 10 | .. | 3 | .. | 72 | 88 | 2 | 3 |
| Cambridge H. and L. | 5 | .. | 1 | .. | 34 | 78 | 1 | 2[9] |
| Hopkinsons | 5 | .. | 6 | .. | 54 | 54 | 0 | 4[10] |
| 1894. | ||||||||
| Manual Training | 9 | .. | 5 | .. | 74 | .. | 4 | 0 |
| English High | 11 | .. | 2 | .. | 68 | 26 | 3 | 2 |
| Cambridge H. and L. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 16 | 98 | 2 | 3 |
| Hopkinsons | 5 | .. | 3 | .. | 42 | 16 | 2 | 3 |
| Boston Latin | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 22 | 32 | 2 | 3 |
| Newton High | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 14 | 58 | 1 | 3 |
St. Mark's has six of last year's men back in school, and a number of promising candidates. Several minor games have been played, but the chief matches will be with Andover next week, and with Groton, November 9th. At the present writing Groton has the better eleven, but the St. Mark's players are working hard under good coaching and will improve.
The Graduate.
A JOKE ON THE MARINES.
An old but a true story goes the rounds in the navy concerning an unintentional slur that was made upon a body of sea-soldiers known as the marines, by a venerable chaplain attached to the frigate Hartford, at the time that vessel was Admiral Farragut's flag-ship. It was the Sunday just after the terrible passage of the Mississippi River forts, and in his sermon the chaplain sought to impress his large congregation gathered on the gun-deck of the vessel the fact of each one being responsible for his own salvation. In concluding his appeal, and with his face flushed from the warmth of his argument, he turned to the gallant old Admiral, and exclaimed,
"Yes, Admiral, you as well as the lowliest of the seamen who are listening to me this morning, cannot escape that individual responsibility; and you, my dear associates of the ward-room, and other officers, you also must take this lesson to yourselves." Then addressing the sailors, he said, "There is no man among you who can shift this question to another's shoulders. Admiral, Captain, officers, and seamen, you all have souls to save." Remembering that in his summing up he had omitted all references to the soldiers of the ship, he hastened to include them also by adding, "Yes, even a marine has a soul to save."
The joke, although perfectly innocent, was too rich not to tickle the congregation, and a titter followed the chaplain's closing sentence. From that day the poor marines have been the butt of the sailors, who occasionally find the greatest satisfaction in reminding them that "Even a marine has a soul to save."