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PLAIN EDITORALAL TALK.-The University. And especially the professional schools, should congratulate themselves that Tuesday's vote resulted in the defeat of Col. James Scripps for legislature. For years he has been a bitter opponent of every improvement needed by the University and his candidacy was nothing more than an attempt to reach a position from which he could strike more letting blows at a grand old school. Every friend of liberal education will rejoice at the defeat of such an ignorant and blatant demagogue. -[Michigan Argonaut...
...have brought its enervating influence to bear upon the members of '88, and they are not called upon to display as yet, the wonted apathy with regard to all athletic matters. It is to '88 that the college must look for a final effort against a clear score of defeats. The past year has been the most disastrous to Harvard of any during the entire history of college sports. In foot ball, lacrosse, base ball, rowing, and tennis, we have met signal and crushing defeat. It was with the utmost difficulty that the cup was brought back, and the present...
Princeton now boasts of having great confidence in the ability of its team to defeat Yale this year, but asks odds.- [Yale News...
...have received a communication from a person signing himself "Harvard Graduate" calling us to account for our supposed hard treatment of the freshman eleven subsequent to their defeat at Exeter, and claiming that our editorials on the subject were written in a jealous spirit of upper class men, against defenceless fresmen. We are sorry that the gentleman did not sign his real name, for he thus prevented us from publishing his letter, but we feel compelled in justice to our selves. to the college, and to Eighty-Eight in particular, to defend the position which we assumed in our previous...
...wish to be thought to call the argument a good one. Thanksgiving day is one of the oldest institutions of the country, and is always looked upon as a time for home gatherings. The granting of only one day off at Thanksgiving to us Harvard students tends to defeat this custom, which is as old and settled almost as the country itself of "home-gatherings" as regards the majority of the students. Of course we all love our Alma Mater, but we can't help wishing for the one or two more "grains of corn...