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...which the freshmen support their teams. First it was football; then the crew was ill-supported; now the baseball team is having trouble. Last week all candidates for the positions of pitcher and catcher were asked to meet in the gymnasium at 3.30 in the afternoon of a certain day. At the appointed hour two men appeared, one pitcher and one catcher. They had never met before and consequently there was no chance to judge of them as a battery. After waiting half an hour, they, with ex-Captain Cook, left the gymnasium, feeling that the freshman baseball season...
...SPEECH.William Henry Cox was the second speaker for Yale. He said that, while political parties were a necessity as an agency to unite action, allegiance to them might readily become blind and therefore disastrous to the country. In becoming a willing follower of certain political leaders, the American citizen loses his individuality and tends to transfer the power from the people to the politicians. Such action is narrowminded and bigoted, and tends to overthrow the fundamental principles of American government. From party allegiance has arisen political corruption, and this is the deadliest enemy of political life. Bribery, ballot-box stealing...
...plate, a similar plate is taken in yellow, and a third in blue. These three plates are now placed one above the other, and printed, and the result is an exact reproduction of the original, so perfect that no painter who ever lived could have copied it as accurately. Certain subtle, delicate qualities in a landscape, never suspected before are brought before the eye. The whole publishing world is looking to this new process, and before many years we may expect to see all our periodicals printed in colors...
...before an audience even larger than that of the night before. He said that every artist has his own ideas on out door work, and therefore what any one man can say must be rather his own ideas than a general treatment of the subject. Of course there are certain fixed laws of color and perspective, but as to how these may best be applied there is room for much dispute...
Yesterday we published a brief summary of a petition to the Overseers from several prominent New York gentlemen asking for certain changes in the regulation that the president of Harvard University shall simply countersign the diplomas which are to be given by Radcliffe College. The spirit which leads men of such eminence, many of them not Harvard graduates, to take such an interest in this matter, is most significant and most encouraging for the cause of the higher education of women. No one will deny this. To the petition itself there will be no objection. It is pretty safe...