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...week in May at Cambridge University happening after the great test examinations of the year is given up to revel and gaiety. The annual races of the colleges are then held. Balls, parties and social meetings fill up the week. He who should suggest the abolition or curtailment of either of the university carnivals, says a recent writer in Chamber's Journal, would be regarded as a revolutionary innovator, no less dangerous than if he had proposed to pull down "Tom Quad," or to let out as building-plots the university cricket-ground. The great "bumping" races that occur...
...raised above the opinions of its contemporaries, - but it is not at liberty to state that these opinions are not "representative in any degree of the sentiments of the college." The Boston Herald, the Advertiser, the New York Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm and the Daily Sun have testified either their general condemnation of Yale's team, or that the general sentiment of Harvard unites in condemning the team. As a slight corroboration of our explanations on our own account we take the liberty of quoting as follows from the last issue of our esteemed contemporary the Crimson...
...existing code of Inter-collegiate Association rules. And, by the way, it is worthy of note that the amendments made at the last convention of the association, which were intended to do away with the "block game" and to put a stop to foul play in tackling men either before or after they have the ball, have entirely failed in their object. Princeton played the block game successfully in the Harvard match of Nov. 18, and Yale indulged in foul tackling at the match of the 25th, the rules in both instances failing to check these objectionable features. The fact...
...amateur and student of astronomy we must depend largely for the success of the plan here proposed. Many such persons spend evening after evening at their telescopes without obtaining results of any permanent value. Either no publication is made and the results are therefore valueless, or time is spent on objects that can be much more usefully examined with a larger instrument. Most commonly the observer has no special plan and spends many hours without result, while the same time might have been employed with equal pleasure to himself and results of great value collected. Those who have not tried...
...ground, and as the blue wavered from the attack he soon secured a fair catch in dangerous proximity to her goal. The ball was placed and amidst frantic cheers from the Jerseymen Haxall scored the first goal for Princeton. Nothing more was scored in the first three-quarters by either side...