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...question discussed at the trial was the same as will be debated in the final contest, namely: "Resolved, That assuming the adoption of adequate Constitutional amendments, the United States should institute a system of responsible Cabinet Government...
...extend our congratulations to the men chosen to represent the University in the coming debate with Princeton. We feel sure that they will realize fully the responsibility laid upon them and the opportunity offered them. They are to represent Harvard in a contest with another great university in which they must strive to regain the prestige lost by the defeat sustained at the hands of Yale. The defeat which we thus suffered will not materially affect us if we retrieve ourselves by a victory in the coming contest. But should we lose the Princeton debate untold injury would result. Only...
...more important of the two. But it is not. If either of the debates is more important than the other, it is that with Princeton. The more convenient time at which the preparation for the Yale debate will come and the fact that it is the only dual contest Harvard has with Yale will assure large and successful trials. Everything will be done to win it. But if we lose the Princeton debate we shall have had two defeats in succession, one by each of our rivals; and the combination will strike a very hard blow at our reputation...
...rush, and, last Tuesday night, Technology, no less than Harvard, ignored the efforts of certain papers to provoke a quarrel in "Newspaper Row." While we should have enjoyed, as much as the Harvard students, the excitement of a rush, we felt that, after the efforts made to abolish this contest, we would have been at least discourteous to be the first to revive this old custom...
...square, and yet they are expected to win games! The contrast between Princeton and Harvard men on Saturday was most striking, one team was fresh and ready, the other stiff and slow and apparently used up. Why does Harvard have so many cripples every year before the great college contests begin? Why cripple the men ourselves? Is the management right? It is most important to win over Pennsylvania as it is a great college contest-it is not material about the Boston Athletic Association. Yet I believe the Boston Athletic Association will, by the hard game they will give, very...