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...John T. Morse is exercised over the annual graduation from Harvard of a "solid phalanx of free-traders," he should rather attack the spirit of the university which enables men to form their own decisions, than advocate the appointment of professors of Protection, whose aim would be to impose upon Harvard students certain doctrines opposed to the results of those students' reasoning...
...then, as seems likely, it was the correspondent's real wish to prove Harvard in such a position he should be most severely blamed for his disloyalty to college; for it may naturally be supposed that he is a Harvard man. In these days Harvard is being sufficiently attacked on almost every side for a host of imaginary evils which, it is declared, exist within her walls. The press throughout the country is ever ready to seize upon and largely exaggerate any slight report which may contain ground for an attack on the college. Therefore it is, that the correspondent...
...might have found some basis for his argument. There was a strange proportional falling off in the number of western men here between '69-70 and '79-80. But in the last ten years, the very ones chosen by the Advocate's correspondent for his attack, Harvard has made enormous gains and is now much nearer Yale than ever before. In every single representative state the proportion of Harvard men to Yale men is larger than it was in '69-70, and in every state but two larger than in '79-80. In some cases the gain has been wonderful...
Cash, of the Princeton eleven, whom we believed to have left college, is said to have returned. His absence is accounted for through an attack of the influenza...
...college was played yesterday afternoon between S. W. Sturgis '90, and F. W. Nicolls '92, at the rooms of the latter. The first move fell by lot to Sturgis, who opened with the "Scotch Gambit" in which the first player sacrifices a pawn for the sake of a strong attack. By the eighth move Sturgis had recovered the pawn, but their positions were nearly equal. For the next few moves each party slowly brought out his pieces, and Nicolls developed a slight attack, which was strengthened by a mistake of his opponent. From this point the game was entirely...