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...game of lacrosse between Columbia and Harvard, which was to have been played here today, has been forfeited by Columbia. By her action in forfeiting two games, the Yale game and this, Columbia has dropped out of the league, which now contains Princeton, Yale, New York University and Harvard...
...last Spirit of the Times discusses the recent action of the faculty in voting against having a fence around the new athletic grounds, and sharply criticizes them for their action...
...appeal to students in general and Yale men in particular to stop the growing evil of gambling. He says, "years of toleration have enabled it to fasten itself on students' life with the tenacity of a tumor on the human vitals, so that reform may call for heroic action." To overcome this evil he suggests among other means, "a resolution calling for action at the next annual meeting of the inter-collegiate Y. M. C. A., in order that a crusade against gambling in all colleges may be called...
...fence would be objectionable to the majority of the students, the opinions thus far expressed must tend to shake their confidence in the soundness of the conclusion reached by them. We have yet to hear of any expression of opinion from the college which is favorable to the action of the faculty. We hope that this fact will be well considered by the faculty and that they will reconsider an action which proves to be in the highest degree distasteful to the students and prejudicial to the success of the new track...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The Yale News entirely misunderstands Harvard's position on the subject of playing with professional ball nines. It says editorially : "The discussion of the whole question of college athletics, which the action of Princeton-Harvard has raised, has proved too clearly the fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play...