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...Some one objects that it will seem to indicate a kind of contempt of the smaller colleges. Not in the least. Games can be played with them which are not matches, and the practice which they would get at New Haven and Cambridge would be desirable. It will be better for the smaller colleges. Take the experience of Weyleyan at foot-ball, for instance. That plucky college has made an earnest and enthusiastic effort to win at foot-ball. Its boys have labored just as conscientiously as those of Yale and Harvard, but they are beaten simply by the limitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About College Athletics. | 12/2/1887 | See Source »

...that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there is no justification for the college authorities to pass over a matter of so great an importance, and one which has been brought to their notice so often, with such silent contempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/12/1887 | See Source »

...doubt. For those who are new to Cambridge ways, we may say that the method pursued by Mr. Hayes is removed, as for as possible, from the spread-eagle, oratorical fashion which is in vogue in so many institutions, and which has brought the study of elocution into much contempt. Mr. Hayes lays stress on enunciation and pronunciation and his aim is to make men speak distinctly and as perfectly as possible. Those who wish to pursue this work will meet today in Holden Chapel from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/6/1887 | See Source »

...nine's reception by the crowd at Princeton is inexplicable. That Princeton, Harvard's old ally, should descend to the tactics which are held in such general contempt, is beyond our power of explanation." - Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment | 6/8/1887 | See Source »

...nine's reception by the crowd at Princeton is inexplicable. That Princeton, Harvard's old ally, should descend to the tactics which are held in such general contempt is beyond our power of explanation. On Saturday the Harvard spectators will show the Princeton men how visitors should be treated on strange grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/24/1887 | See Source »

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