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...nine will spend today at Wellesley Hills to avoid the excitement of Class...
...matches to-day will be played according to the following schedule. In order to avoid delays, men will be defaulted 15 minutes after scheduled time...
...previous letters. These were clearly refuted in the last Harvard letter sent to New Haven and published in the CRIMSON of May 6. As matters now stand there is little probability of settling the championship this season if the two scheduled games result as they generally do. To avoid this Harvard has exhausted every means now at her disposal, except the one of giving in completely to Yale's unreasonable demand. There the question rests for the present, if not permanently...
...withstanding our conviction of the reasonableness of our position since it does not commend itself to you, and since you must desire as strongly as we do to avoid the fruitless outcome of last year's games, we propose to you to refer the decision as between your plan and ours to two graduates, one from Harvard, to be chosen by us, and one from Harvard, to be named by you. In case the two graduates so chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a third person, not a graduate of either University, to act with them, and the decision...
...what is all the discussion about? Why is it important? We take it for granted that Yale will agree in saying that it is to avoid a repetition of last year's experience, a season ended with each team even in honors and their comparative merits not fully tested. There is no satisfaction in such a state of affairs. It is opposed to the idea of athletics; it is something which every true lover of manly sports cannot brook. Thus far we suppose that Yale also agrees with us, for if not, she would be truly inconsistent with "Yale spirit...