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...this snobbery shows itself. Mr. X and Mr. Y, two freshmen, go to New Haven upon the occasion of a freshmen contest between Yale and Harvard. X is an athlete of whom his class is proud. Y is a butterfly. During the game, X distinguishes himself for fine playing. When the game is over, X and Y have a bottle of beer together and sleep all the way from New Haven to Boston with their arms about each other's neck! Very good...
...aside from the fact that any contest would be certain to draw a number of men, there seems to be another and stronger reason why something should be done in this way. There are several events in the Mott Haven games which we have small hope of winning this year. With the departure of Clark and Rogers, our hopes in winning the high jump have vanished, to all appearances...
...last Harpers Weekly there is a full page illustration of the scene from the second act of Wagner's opera "Siegfried," representing the contest between Siegfried and the dragon...
...Bradlee, the independent candidate for mayor of Boston, has with-drawn in favor of the republican nominee, and the contest now lies between the present Mayor O'Brien and Alderman Hart...
That it is better for Harvard and Yale to confine their contests to each other is open to doubt. It would tend to increase the size of the two institutions and would act unfavorably upon athletic interests elsewhere. However, it seems to be the tendency. For some years the contest in base-ball has narrowed down to our New Haven rivals and ourselves, and the outcome of this season's foot-ball play has placed Princeton further in the background. Yale, we believe, looks upon this as a point gained, and likes to consider Harvard as her only suitable rival...