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...Complaint is sometimes made of the small number of men who usually attend any ordinary class meeting, and the usual moral of Harvard indifference is in most cases drawn from this circumstance. It has been suggested that the late practice indulged in by some of the classes of calling meetings merely for the purpose of collecting money and paying off debts is the more important cause of poor attendance at these meetings. Of course this should not have any weight in deterring men from meetings, but, it is claimed, unhappily it does have weight. Perhaps a little more care...
...state of affairs at the beginning of the present season. The college as a whole was willing and anxious to support its representatives in every way it could, and although, at times, the croakers made their influence felt, still the eleven feels that there is no necessity for complaint over lack of enthusiasm among their friends. The policy of the team was evidently to play to win the championship matches instead of to score overwhelming defeats over elevens recognized as decidedly inferior, and making use of methods utterly useless against Princeton and Yale. A failure to grasp this policy...
...degree of the sentiments of the college, they might deserve consideration; but, as it is, they are beneath notice. The expressions of the Boston papers, and of individual Harvard students of high standing, show what the true ideas at that institution are, and we have no ground for complaint. - [Yale News.] Will the News name one Harvard student of "high standing" who has put himself on record as approving Yale's play and disapproving Harvard's universal condemnation of it on the field the day of the game. The Boston paper have indeed explained what the true ideas of this...
...kept within reasonable bounds, and that indulgence does not run to excess, but further they should not go. Unless there is rivalry, an incentive to action, the interest in athletic games at colleges will grow lukewarm, and from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia will come the complaint voiced by Herr Von Gossler, the Prussian minister of education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys in the higher schools of the country shall be made to play games. The physical condition of the pupils is not what German opinion would have it. While the boys...
...team and the sentiment of her press can be taken as a criterion, Yale cares little for the respect and, consequently, still less for the congratulations of defeated rivals. When a team plays a foul, unfair game deliberately and intentionally, we consider that we have just cause for complaint. But when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only to praise in vainglorious terms the conduct of its players, but also to speak of "defeating Harvard and Princeton at the same time in Harvard's own back-yard," thereby...