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...Yale freshmen and Columbia 'varsity to the contests at New London. The plan is well arranged, and the attempt is ingenious. A despatch was sent yesterday to New Haven for further particulars in regard to the matter, but up to the time of going to press last night no answer had been received. The crew management has received no notice of the demands made by Columbia and Yale, and declines to make any statement in regard to the matter until after such notification shall arrive...
...rules of the game are perfectly definite and are never disputed, umpires are provided for, and there is no opportunity for quarrelling about this nor as to where a match is to be played. Then, why should Harvard ask Princeton and Yale to form a separate league? The answer is ready enough: To boom college base-ball. How could the annual Yale-Princeton foot-ball game have become the paramount athletic event, that it has, if it were simply a game of a long series and played by two colleges of a large foot-ball league! Or, to draw...
...little to gain by the change she had all to lose. For these two reasons, then, Yale has acted as she has, and as to whether she is willing to enter any new league, consisting of a larger yet limited number of colleges, as has been suggested, no definite answer can yet be made...
...opinions - the subject of which the article on college journals in Monday's issue made an introduction - seems to come with appropriateness. What are college papers for? Are articles written by college officers and outsiders or by students, or by both, the desiderata? These are the two questions, the answer to which - and it will be noticed that an answer to the first is necessary, and sufficient to answer the second - would go far toward setting student publications on a surer basis. The answer, it seems to us, would be that college papers are a receptacle for the literary attempts...
...question which the lecturer in tended to answer was what influences brought about the sudden and phenomenal advance in Greek sculpture between 520 and 360 B. C.; how it came about that the fetters of conventional archaism were broken through and room given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition...