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...valuable hints about the characteristics of the Harvard and Yale players. He has but recently joined the eleven, although his play with a team in Albany has kept him in practice, S. Hodge has retired permanently. His injury in the Wesleyan game was such as to necessitate this action. His loss is a severe blow to the team, although Riggs, his successor, has thus far shown up well...
There is much dissatisfaction among Harvard graduates in New York over the action of the athletic committee in refusing to allow the Yale-Harvard game to be played on the polo grounds. A great many had made arrangements to support the team by their presence on Thanksgiving...
...foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts of the eleven than by its action on Saturday; and the enthusiasm thus shown under the greatest drawbacks, as far as physical comfort is concerned, must have been extremely gratifying to the members of the team. Still, we desire to add one word to those who are still undecided whether or no to accompany the eleven to Princeton...
...college with regard to certain new regulations which the board was consi ering, a sub-committee on the government of college affairs was appointed to confer with the undergraduate committee consisting of the four class presidents. The conference showed the need of consulting a representative student body before taking action on any new plan of government, for several schemes of rigorous college discipline were brought up, the folly of which was soon made evident. Had the overseers taken this step of consulting the student's ideas and wishes on college discipline before, they would never have made the silly suggestions...
...papers or his athletics, but he will also claim that his outside work is of great value and his time is not wasted. Professor Briggs makes us laugh at our own follies but he would be the last man to advocate an abridgement of the freedom of thought and action which is the occasion of those follies which he deplores...