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...view of the facts, therefore, that no official action has been taken in the matter, and that all of the expressed opinions of the college have been decidedly against any arbitrary measures being taken, we do not think that the Dartmouth is justified in indulging in such an editorial screed as the following...
...Your action would be a little more justifiable if your victories exceeded ours. As it is, you act the part not of disappointed and beaten rivals so much as that of cowards. It is, no doubt, exceedingly mortifying to the wearers of the crimson to have Yale and Princeton defeat our nine and suffer defeat themselves at its hands. Harvard has gained an unenviable reputation in the past for grumbling at the result of athletic contests where she has failed to be victorious and she has strengthened it lately. Her defeats are always due to a prejudiced judge, umpire...
...National Council of the Union League of America held its annual session in Philadelphia. Resolutions favoring the plan of harmonious action between the different factions of the Republican party, were adopted...
...vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything - that they will meet, formally vote the degrees, either with or without a condition, hand them over, and then revoke them, if they see fit, suggests a course of action which so intimately concerns the best interests of the college that its friends may be pardoned if they respectfully ask for explanation." - [Transcript...
...sorry that the Williams Athenoeum takes so gloomy and bitter a view of the changes proposed for the college base-ball league. From information gleaned from private sources we had been led to suppose that Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established...