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...discourage a healthy interest in athletics. The whole ground of this matter has been gone over more fully in the college papers than I can do in this report and it will suffice for me to state what, in my opinion, has been the effect of this regulation of the Faculty. Apparently this regulation had no effect at all so far as the success of our athletics at the Polo grounds were concerned. This was to be expected, however, for all the winners of prizes at New York, with one exception, had already learned to walk alone, so to speak...
...post-graduate department of Yale College will take up this year a novel course of study, namely, that of railroads and their growth, shipping and international trade, stocks, and the effect of speculation on the money market...
...volume issued last year among "juveniles," entitled "Three Vassar Girls Abroad" had the effect of exciting the direful wrath of the Vassar Miscellany to an unusual degree. Undaunted, the authors announce for publication this fall, "Three Vassar Girls in England." The esteemed Miscellany has a hard task before...
...method which Yale is trying this fall of having a class tournament in tennis to determine who shall represent the college at the coming intercollegiate match at Hartford is said to work very well. The immediate effect of the change has been to nearly double the number of entries, which now amount to fifty. The HERALD has already suggested the advisability of a trial of this method in one of Harvard's tournaments; our argument would seem to be strengthened by the result of Yale's experiment...
...players in the nine were successively maimed and prevented from playing, so that of the men who now constitute the nine all but three, Smith, Beaman and Lovering, have been obliged to lay off one or more games. This was, of course, fatal to systematic practice, but its bad effect has not been so marked as would naturally have been expected...