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Yale is to demand an answer to her challenge from Harvard before January 18th. Interesting particulars appeared in yesterday's Boston papers...
...rules adopted at the last foot-ball convention in regard to the block game seem likely to answer their purpose exactly. It was plain during the last season's contests that victories would likely be very much the result of chance unless the safety touch was made to enter into the final score. And it naturally followed that this would make the best basis from which to reckon higher scores. A touchdown now equals two, a goal from the field five, and a goal from a touchdown six safeties. No doubt can be entertained concerning the relation between goals from...
...answer to the objection raised by the correspondent of the Advertiser against the revoking of degrees by the corporation of Harvard has appeared. If, says this rejoinder, the degrees are voted subject to an expressly reserved power of revocation remaining in the corporation, or even deputed by the corporation to the faculty, no authority on earth could compel the delivery up to a riotous graduate of his diploma after the reserved power of revocation had been exercised. . . . The writer assumes that the college intends to vote degrees absolutely, and then to take them away, and it is on this assumption...
...other cries, we are told, there were shouts of "Bad for Harvard!" Compare this with the comment of the Spectator on Lord Carnarvon's statement that "three-fourths of the literary power of the country and four-fifths of the intellectual ability" were on the Conservative side, and the answer by a writer in the Times giving a long list of eminent liberals. The Spectator says, "Neither assertion nor rejoinder matters a straw. The transfer of power, under our modern system, is not left to professors, but to those whom they scarcely influence at all." - [N. Y. Post...
Later - A telegram has been sent to the Yale freshmen, endeavoring to arrange a game for tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon. No answer has yet been received by Capt. Woodbury...