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...from the Rowing Association has now nearly subsided. Giving as reasons want of rivalry, unfair treatment, and general dissatisfaction, our two most influential colleges have withdrawn from the regatta; Yale's departure to be effected this year, and Harvard to appear but once more in the arena of that contest which is so rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like the celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength...
...philosopher, - a writer who places Porter, as intellectual, opposed antithetically to Emerson and Fiske, as trivial; and who considers Porter's work the culmination of the intellect of Yale, - such a man, we say, has far too low an estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest it. But as the full array of Yale's centennial display bursts once more upon our stunned imagination, we can but say, with poor old Tate Wilkinson, after his famous walk to the window...
...Forest and Stream has a leading editorial on "Collegiate Rifle-matches," and to encourage an annual contest in rifle-shooting between the colleges it offers "a badge as a prize for students' competition, either at Creedmoor or at other ranges to which they have access...
...first game of foot-ball between Yale and Harvard was played at New Haven on the 13th inst. So full an account of the game has already appeared in the Advocate, that we here give merely a summary of the contest...
...rates of exchange on New Haven have fallen heavily in anticipation of the foot-ball contest...