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...University of Pennsylvania will endeavor to arrange a race with Harvard. Should her attempt fail, she will claim the championship...
...dawned, and the armies for the third time faced each other at close quarters. After a hard struggle Johnson was driven back and the right of the line restored. But the afternoon was to see the great work of the day, the final attempt of Lee to break Meade's army. The place selected for an attack was the centre of the line. After a fire of artillery, to demoralize the Federal troops, the Confederates advanced. 14,000 men, led by Pickett, Wilcox and Pettigrew, rushed forward. They got separated, and not supporting each other, all were captured or compelled...
...very plain in the case of the Hamilton College seniors. From the published statements it would seem that, not in any respect different from most such cases, both parties, the faculty and the seniors,-are more or less in the wrong. But it is always inadvisable for outsides to attempt to pass any pronounced judgments on such matters, as the means of correct information are always limited. Every college student knows how much his actions are miss-represented and misunderstood by the outside world and, we presume, college faculties experience the same difficulties. Leaving aside the original merits...
...Camp of Yale writes a long letter to the New York Times in defence of the present system of college athletics and criticising the new attempt at "reform." Mr. Camp well expresses the feeling of reaction against the extreme measures of the reformers and their more extreme views which is rapidly spreading among the general and the college public. "College athletic organizations if left to themselves," says Mr. Camp, "would soon work out their own salvation in these matters by learning by experience that a college coach is preferable to a professional, and the knowledge thus acquired is far more...
...probably meant in kindness to the students. They would be ignorant of the exact extent of the mine that was being secretly dug under their athletic interests, and of course would feel far more comfortable than if they knew just what threatened them. To us such an attempt at secrecy appears much like a stolen march. Students have built up various athletic organizations, and fostered an interest in athletic sports under great difficulties. This interest has been a source of great advantage to the students themselves by leading them as a body, to attend more closely to the demands...