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...only when Harvard's failure to defeat Yale is publicly condemned as "a disgrace" that the ungenerosity cuts to the quick and provokes a startled cry. I quote from your comment upon the Pennsylvania game...
Harvard's football season closed on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, last Saturday afternoon, with a defeat by the University of Pennsylvania, the score being...
...Stokes, Jr., Yale '96, who was on the first Yale team to defeat Harvard in debate, will give an address this evening at 6.45 in Holden Chapel, on the work of the Young Men's Christian Association in this country and abroad. Few realize the importance of the work done by the international Christian Associations and the address is sure to be interesting, as Mr. Stokes is eminently fitted to speak on this subject...
...defense has been unusually strong. In short it must be remembered that notwithstanding Saturday's failure, the old conditions were reversed. For the first time in years Yale's team, though a strong one, was thrown upon the defensive and was decidedly pleased with its success in avoiding defeat. There is no excuse to offer for the failure to win, but there is much satisfaction to be derived from the real strength displayed. The machine which turned out this year's team may be expected to turn out still better ones in the future...
After all, this formal renewal of friendship is an achievement which in time to come should mean more to Harvard and to Yale than victory or defeat. Harvard is glad to meet her old foes again, and glad that hereafter the meetings on the home grounds will render freer than before social and personal intercourse. Yale men and Harvard men, however their petty prejudices and superficial traits may differ, are nevertheless of the same stock. They are both more thoroughly cosmopolitan than men from other colleges. They come from all ranks of society, and from all sections of the country...