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...care of the men while on the field. Although much of this advantage is lost at Harvard, the energy and enterprise of the captain makes up in a great part for their misfortune. Another disadvantage which we labor under is the fact that Harvard begins later than either Princeton of Yale, and on that account loses some valuable practice. However, these disadvantages are but slight when met with a determination to do the best we can, and this determination, we are sure, every candidate for the team will feel. Nothing, however, makes the men play better and with more snap...
...decisive game for the inter-collegiate championship was played in Brooklyn, June 28th, before an audience of 3000, the greater part of whom were either under-graduates or alumni of the two contesting universities. The play was close and sharp during the entire game, and the excitement was intense at times. Yale won the match by her splendid fielding, and by bunching hits in the sixth inning. The score follows and tells the story...
Saturday's victory over Dartmouth insures for us a chance to tie Yale for the championship on Saturday, while if Yale is defeated in either the two games with Princeton and Brown which remain to be played it is more than possible Saturday's game may decide the championship...
...outside of the classics and mathematics. Dartmouth has no teacher of history, "whether professor, tutor, or temporary instructor." Princeton has only one professor of history, and he includes political science with history in his teaching. Yale requires neither French nor German for admission, and "no instructor is provided in either language before the beginning of the junior year." Columbia compels her juniors to attend two exercises a week in political economy for half the year, and at Brown juniors and seniors may elect the subject for two hours a week, the one a half, the other a whole year. While...
...decide between two courses with full knowledge that to gain the mark he aims at (be it 50, 70, or 90 per. cent.) will acquire two or three times as much work in one course as in the other, and this not depending on his own special fitness for either course, but because of the amount of work which has come to be expected in each course, and the standard of marking which prevails. No blame can be attached to any instructor when the standard of his course has once become established. Naturally enough no one of them believes that...