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Can you inform me in regard to the following questions? Was the foot ball convention held immediately after the Yale-Princeton game an informal one? If so, have the students a right to instruct their delegates to the formal convention, at which the championship will be decided?
In reply to our correspondent, whose communication we publish this morning, we would say that the facts as far as we can learn are as follows in regard to the foot ball championship. The regular convention is held a week after the Thanksgiving game, and at this meeting the championship...
When, however, the statement is made that "in the opinion of Harvard,-a neutral body,-Yale is the champion for 1884," we confess that the fancy is carried a little too far. Harvard expressly stated, in a mass meeting of the students, that she did not agree with nor approve...
Meanwhile the Yale and Princeton papers, in a very childish and unreasonable manner, assure their readers that the championship has been virtually won by their respective colleges. No amount of petty discussion and puerile quibbling, however, will alter the decisions of the referee and of the convention in declaring that...
The action in question may be somewhat peculiar, but it must be remembered that every person has a right to his own personal opinion, and has, moreover, a right to express this opinion in a meeting which is open to a general discussion of the subjects in hand. The private...