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...last the question of the new base-ball league has been settled to the satisfaction and advantage, let us hope, of all parties. Yale's attitude all along has been little understood by the outside world, and in consequence many untrue charges have been laid at our door. The base-ball management and the University, in spite of these charges to the contrary, have been honest in all their negotiations and decisions. Yale has simply taken the ground that the question of withdrawing from a league which embodied many pleasant relations and which had its advantages, and forming another league...
...work, who has not been educated up to a certain point. It is by no means necessary that A has done the same work in kind as B for him to receive the same degree; but it is necessary that they be equally educated, equally equipped for future work along their respective lines. For example, just how much French and German is an equivalent for a certain amount of Greek is for the gentlemen of the faculties of our colleges - not academies - to decide. That the equation cannot be made with mathematical truth, is no argument against the approximation...
...season was well along in May without any practice games, except with picked nines, when a challenge was received from the Yale University nine to play a match game on regatta day, both nines to be "selected from the academic departments alone." As this was the first time Yale had shown any inclination to play Harvard, the challenge was eagerly accepted, although it was really a Greek gift, the Yale nine having been meeting with great success during the spring. At this time I find the earliest mention on record of that time-honored lie: "Vassar Female College...
...convenient if this one easy language can enable us to get along with comfort in the large hotels and shops of Europe; or can suffice for the merchant in his trade with all foreign countries...
...Captain Glazier might have gone on to the end of his days writing apochryphal reminiscences of the war and we would have nothing to say; he might have told all sorts of imaginary stories of adventure on the plains, and along the rivers of our continent, and it would have been none of our business; he might have lectured himself into fame and fortune without a word of protest from us. But when he began to pervert the history and distort the geography of our continent to gratify his ignorant conceits and base ambitions, it began to come within...