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In the next place, handicaps are better than limit races, for no matter how poor a runner a man may be yet he always has a chance in a handicap, while in a limit race he might really be too poor to have any chance at all. Finally handicaps are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/24/1883 | See Source »

Yale beat Wesleyan 14 goals, 3 touchdowns to 0, and Harvard beat the same eleven 3 goals, 3 touchdowns, to 6; and Princeton hasn't beaten a thing. But it don't signify. [Princetonian.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/18/1883 | See Source »

There can be no doubt but that Yale at present has the two best halfbacks in the intercollegiate association. [Yale News. We have halfbacks to, but we don't boast. [Princetonian.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/18/1883 | See Source »

The governor made the following remarks in reference to a well-known occurrence, in a speech delivered in Boston on Wednesday night: "At last, they said that he is a boor. He don't know the usages of good society. He is not well educated. He was not educated at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOV. BUTLER ON HARVARD. | 10/16/1883 | See Source »

First freshman (after Harvard's victory over Wesleyan): "Say, old man, I feel too big for this college to hold me." Second freshman, "For heaven's sake don't tell anybody." Fact.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/10/1883 | See Source »