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...Clipper draws the following moral from the Yale-Princeton game : "The contest with its kicking feature gave ample evidence of the fact that the door for improvement in the inter-collegiate code is wide open for a decided advance towards the English Foot-ball Association's rules, with the view of encouraging kicking more and contracting the field for rushing with ball in hand. The kicking in this match gave a new interest to the game, which the crowd in general fully appreciated...
...regret that the Yale News has condescended to permit such language as the following to appear in its editorial columns. The flagrant misrepresentation contained in its statements it is useless to comment upon : "After Harvard had adorned the rear ranks for several years in the contest for base-ball championship, there was a boom started at that college this year that the Harvard Nine withdraw from the contest, inasmuch, as they then said, Harvard was known to be an institution 'devoted to learning only and not to athletics.' A university meeting was held for the university to take some action...
...that above all the general sentiment of this college strongly deprecates the useless and harmful bickering which unfortunately Yale, so far as it may be represented by the pugnacious News, seems inclined to resort to. Harvard simply believes that Yale played an unfair game in the late foot-ball contest, and one contrary to the spirit of the rules, and she will, we hope, insist that the rules shall be amended or such precautions taken as will in future prevent any recurrence of such a disgraceful exhibition as was witnessed on the twenty-fifth of last month. That Yale...
...when continued too far into the summer, especially when the men know that lost time must be made up by excessive grinding. Finally, it would be better for the freshmen crew to have the race earlier, so as not to break in upon their training for their more important contest-their race with Columbia...
...than for Harvard to withdraw alone from the league in the hope that Princeton, Yale and Brown would follow her and thus leave Dartmouth and Amherst in the lurch. We certainly think that a smaller league than the present one is desirable, since it would result in a closer contest for the championship. This, however, in largely a matter of opinion, and we shall be glad to publish the opinion of any one who entertains a different view of the subject...