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...among the foot-ball enthusiasts at New Haven at the manner in which they think Yale was treated at the recent inter-collegiate foot-ball convention in New York. The feeling here is that Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania joined forces and advanced a proposition to the effect that Yale should play Harvard at Cambridge and Princeton at Princeton. They argued that as Harvard had a new and inexperienced team, it was no more than fair that Yale should give them the benefit of playing on their own grounds, and that as Princeton had come to New Haven...
...scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Everett, the President of the Day, rose to address them. To say that he was most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around him, the effect of his own unrivalled declamation, his fancy seemed to burst away on freshened pinion, and to pour forth lavishly the riches of his well-fraught mind...
...motion was passed to the effect that men rowing on the University crew should not be allowed to row on their class crews, and it was also voted to empower the executive committee to elect a graduate committee for the purpose of assisting the captain of the crew in his duties...
...then the Conference Committee is to exist another year on the same basis as before, the unpopularity will naturally increase and as it loses status among the students, the effectiveness of the committee will be proportionately diminished. It seems that the proper remedy would be either to give the committee more power, which seems by far the most advisable solution, or to dispense with its services altogether as to make the students thoroughly understand that the committee is nothing more than a debating society where undergraduate opinion may be expressed without reason or responsibility, for if one's schemes...
...coming year. Messrs. Amory, Leighton and Wood were elected to the Anniversary Committee, and Messrs. Adams, Appleton and Porter were elected marshals. A motion to direct the committee to oppose the project of a championship foot-ball game on undergraduate's day, was defeated. A motion to the effect that '88 disapproved of the election of the Conference Committee was defeated by a small majority; and a motion to the effect "That the class did not care a - whether it was re-elected or not" was passed by a rising vote...