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...distinctions, is met by the reply that class feeling is a good thing, and that the experiment of university societies for social purposes failed at Yale. It is sometimes claimed that the senior societies govern the college press. The fact that on the editorial boards of all the papers except the Yale Literary Magazine, the non-society men greatly outnumber the society men, efficiently disproves this. The charge of favoritism, the writer dismisses as almost groundless, and asserts that many instances have been known where an intimate friend or relative of a prominent society man has failed to be elected...
...listened with interest to the oration, addresses, music, etc., which made up the programme. When all was over, the noise in the streets began again, and it was not till the veterans and escort had marched all around the yard that quiet was restored and the toiling student forgot, except for the extra number of loose muckers struggling about, that the day was known to all but him as Memorial...
...three o'clock this afternoon the bicycle races will begin on Jarvis Field. There remains little to be said except to advise all those who are able, to be present. The opportunities to witness good bicycle races are small, and the fine riders who will take part this afternoon make this an exceptionally good chance. The club has also added the inducement beyond that of ordinary races of having a championship contest between Yale and Harvard. The races are the only means the club have of making money, and the receipts from today's meet ought to leave a handsome...
Recitations, except for the freshmen, end today...
Professionalism among the colleges of New York State has taken on a queer aspect. Several college-Cornell, Hobart, Rochester, Hamilton and Union, have formed an association and are now playing for the champion ship, and it appears that all except Cornell, if we are informed correctly, have regular professional players on their nines. It may be because we are bigoted on the subject of professionalism, but we confess that we are unable to see what possible right a nine, composed partially of professional players, has to play for a college championship any more than a league nine, under the name...