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There were seven thousand spectators at the Yale-Princeton game in New York on Decoration Day. The N. Y. Herald in commenting on the game, says: "The contest as a whole was but little in advance of the amateur playing of twenty years ago, and in striking contrast to the splendid exhibition on the same field the day before...
Just now, when the whole college is loud in their praises of the gallant fight the freshman nine made at New Haven, a few days ago, we are sorry to be compelled to copy the item that appeared in the Monday News: "The Harvard freshmen were the agents in the uproar of Saturday night and Sunday morning." We are sure that all will appreciate the hospitable and manly conduct of the News in attributing all the noise to their guests...
...final heat of the 100 yards dash was between Wendell, '82, Johnson, '85, Billings, '85, and Soren, '83. It was closely contested, but was won by Wendell in 10 3/4 seconds. The best previous college record was made by Wendell a year ago on Jarvis (10 seconds). Johnson, '85, was second...
...lovely blonde or pretty Daisy Miller. Yet surely no one would say that the girls of today are not as good as those that our grandfathers loved. If you think that we live in a state of society not as pure as that of a hundred years ago, read Richardson's "Clarissa," or Fielding's "Amelia," or "Tom Jones...
...binders their moral development, and sends them into the world like Richard, 'half made up.' They show no doubt whatever that we are a set of stubborn scoffers at the faith from a faculty of confirmed infidels to a freshman class of jeering sceptics." It is not many years ago that Harvard could have extended the hand of sympathy to Cornell. Fortunately, however, our "over-zealous brethren" seem to be growing sensible with the more liberal views...