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...that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable if we do not frown upon it. For what consequence is our little excitement in comparison with the cause of an honorable course on the athletic field? We believe with Mr. Wendell on this subject as we did on the former, this a reform by the students, the other a recognition by the faculty, that our best interests can be served by granting us freedom...
...their splendid work Saturday. The game was won in spite of the odds which Harvard had to face. It was played at New Haven, where there is every facility for rattling a team, and the cheering of the plucky little crowd of Harvard men was but a drop in comparison with the sea of Yale cheers. The members of '91 who preferred to stay at home and let their team fight its own battles may find consolation in the fact that the team won without any assistance of theirs, and that they lost the opportunity of seeing a fine game...
...CRIMSON commented the other day on a remark which was unfortunately not unique-that Harvard ought to have some paper that would bear comparison with the Yale Lit, whereas we have two that yield to it in no respect-the Monthly and the Advocate...
There is no better way to ascertain in what favor Harvard is held by young men preparing for college in the different localities of this country than by a comparison of the statistics of the various freshman classes. It has been the custom of the CRIMSON for several years to collect these statistics in order to find out the rise or decline of Harvard influence in the different states, cities and above all, the large preparatory schools of the United States. To begin with, below will be found a list of the number of the men who have entered...
...students studied optional English; in 1885-6, 453 out of the 1006 students took English, or 45 per cent. of all the students in college. This marked increase - more than double - in the percentage of students of English shows very well the striking growth of the English department. In comparison with the other studies of the college, English ranks seventh, being taken by nearly as many men as the four which precede it in the list, Latin, German, Greek and Political Economy. When, however, the number taking English prescribed by the faculty is added to the list of those taking...