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...reply to our correspondent of this morning, we can only say, that while we do not set ourselves up as a criterion of etiquette we feel competent to answer the question which he asks. To quiet the fears of nervous guardians and anxious mammas, we wish to make public a fact already generally well known, that the base-ball games at Harvard are held in the afternoon at an hour leaving plenty of time after the match to reach home after dark. It has always been a custom for students to invite ladies to these games, and we never noticed...
...essayed to answer three questions : First, What is literature? Second, Why do college students of today know so little about it? Third, What way shall we take to know more about...
...Henry W. Foote, whose remarks that writer endorses, it would be highly improper to ask Mr. Randall and Mr. Carlisle their views on the important question of the tariff when the selection of one or the other to a most important office in the government depends upon the answer. The custom that has hitherto prevailed in the selection of overseers, and the custom that would probably have prevailed for years to come, had not Mr. Garrison stepped in, if adopted in our national politics would have been merely to cast a blind vote for the more popular...
...Kent, stating that it would be impossible for us to play on those dates, unless we played here the 24th, and I asked if he would agree to play the first game in Cambridge, May 24th, and the second in New Haven, May 31st. To this no direct answer has as yet been received ; but it seems from various reports from Yale sources, that Yale, '87, being dissatisfied with Mr. Kent's course, has voted not to play with us at all unless we consent to play them the first game May 24th in New Haven. We confidently expect that...
...spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this courteous suggestion from the new board of editors of the News, we will now answer their editorial so far as it refers to the ball game...