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...highly startling and instructive item has been going the rounds of the collegiate press for the last few weeks, to the effect that out of about 600 graduates of Vassar, less than one-third have married. This piece of news seems to have a magnetic fascination for the average college editor...
...rules to be submitted to the faculty, and in turn adopted by the convention, as a condition of Harvard's continuing to play. To these suggestions Mr. White answered that the faculty could not go on experimenting; this was tried last year without any beneficial effect. Capt. Kimball then affirmed that owing to a change in the sentiment of Yale and Princeton, that new regulations could be more easily urged upon them than last year; and Mr. Noble spoke for increased power for the referee to enforce the existing rules, which as they stand are sufficient to prevent objectionable play...
...students of Cornell University recently held a mass meeting for the purpose of considering the advisability of consolidating the interests of the various athletic organizations. Resolutions were adopted to this effect, and plans were discussed for improvement in athletics. The president of the college then addressed the meeting on the subject of boating, -would that our President might take such active interest in our sports, as to speak directly to us and not at us! He referred to his own connection with athletics during his collegiate days at Yale, and of the deep interest he took in them, especially...
...game last Saturday' I was struck with the difference between the two contesting teams ; whereas the Princeton men did not seem to play in the rush-line with any more vigor and earnestness than our men, still they so surpassed our rushers, in system, that the greatest difference in effect was discernable. Each man on the Priceton team seemed not only to know where he himself should be at a given time, but also where every other man in the team was and should be. And this seems to me, to be directly due to the fact that...
...however small, is not pleased to find that during his absence his landlady, in a sudden mania of spring-cleaning, has ruthlessly dragged out and dusted all his cherished volumes, and has replaced them perfectly regardless of size or shape, with that want of an eye to the general effect which is so characteristic of the average lodging-housekeeper...