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Yale seems to be much disgruntled over the growing success of Harvard's and Princeton's "funny" papers and her own sterility in this line. The Yale Lit. says, enviously : "We cannot, of course, ever hope to rival Harvard in this respect. She is too excruciatingly funny. But in our own way we may in time be able to publish something worthy of the name of wit. This hope, we think, is justified by the News' Wednesday supplement and the "log" items in the Courant and Record." That strange delusion that Yale men cherish that the News supplements are really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 5/4/1882 | See Source »

...member of the Providence nine considers Bean the best college pitcher he ever played against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

...their own advantage. It is hard to see why a dormitory built with modern improvements and reasonable accommodations could not be made to yield a sufficient return on the investment to supply in some measure the present deficit in the annual income of the university. If that happy time ever comes when Harvard is free from pressing money wants, then we may all unite in a prayer for a reduction in college rents. We can stand extortion when it is necessary, and when its fruits are devoted to a noble end, but perhaps sometime the day will come when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

...seem to indicate yet again the continually increasing interest of the university in general athletics. Such an interest is in every way commendable, and its marked appearance at this college is, we think, indicative of a growing tendency among college men in general to devote themselves more than ever before to a cultivation of systematic physical growth and of gymnastic exercises. In the present case, however, the chief thing is to be assured that the present industry in training will continue unabated until the day of the meeting in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/28/1882 | See Source »

...when supported by all the dead-tongue devotees in the country; but," it continues, "for one man, in the midst of the pressing work of the junior year, to write up an entirely original play [Penikeese], such as shall satisfy an audience far harder to please than any Greece ever saw, is not without its merit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/28/1882 | See Source »