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...Members of the Yale foot ball team who expect to play their game against Princeton next Thursday are watching and waiting with deep interest for the result of Mr. J. L. Sullivan's test case on the law relating to pugilism." -[Boston Advertiser...
Through sleet and snow very few men made their dreary way to Jarvis Field, yesterday afternoon, to see the University and Freshman elevens busily engaged in practice. The snow was about two inches deep and very slippery, while the sleet blew in the faces and hands of the men, making it very uncomfortable. The air, however, was bracing and favorable to the briskest kind of motions. Mr. Adams, and Mr. Waldo Fuller, '83, were coaching the two teams as up and down the field they made their slippery way. Running and dodging were difficult feats to perform. Tackling was easy...
...detachment received a perfect ovation. The appearance of the college men was the signal for cheers and clapping, and many handkerchiefs were waved approvingly, only to be quickly confiscated as the brigade marched past. Over this part of the route the marching was rendered difficult by reason of the deep mud, but everyone was out for a good time, and no grumbling was heard. As houses were passed where young ladies tenanted the windows, the classes invariably sent up loud and appreciative cheers. From the South End the procession took up the line of march for the business districts, passing...
...statue will represent him as a rather slender and tall young man seated in an armchair with an open book, presumably a Bible, on one knee. He is buried in deep meditation, and his clear cut, noble features indicate great depth of character and refinement of intellect, combined with a strong will and well-defined purpose. Competent judges declare that the work is excellent, portraying the thinker, scholar, and preacher such as John Harvard...
...very remarkable degree has kept mere noise and boisterousness at a discount in their public assemblies, and, indeed in the whole theory and practice of their lives? Not, I think, what has been obtained in lecture-room, or recitation-room, so much as in these surroundings which suggest deep and quiet reflection,- these accretions of historic interest, these embodiments of tender sentiment. It is good for any student to feel that wise and true men have labored at his university before him,- that their quiet constructive work has been recognized,- that it outlasts the din and applause of stump speeches...