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...support from the students. Beginning yearly with a few good cricketers the eleven is filled up with raw men who practice faithfully by themselves unnoticed and disregarded, and by the time the season is well begun, we have at least a fair cricket team, but with hardly an extra man for a substitute. Last spring, starting under just such conditions, the eleven by hard work, succeeded in winning every match played, and yet what came of it? Not half in college knew of this splendid record, and the others didn't take enough interest to testify their appreciation. Scarcely...
...chief object has been the reconciling of intellectual and moral religion and the leading of a religious life in the university. The workers want the aid of those whom Prof. Drummond calls the "spectators," those who with Mr. Huxley are neither for Christianity nor against it, but are extra-Christians. Their aid is needed, and for them Prof. Drummond makes four terms : First, that he and his friends condemn all undue show of solemnity, all sanctimoniousness. The religion of a young man need notice that of his grandmother, but a practical every-day Christianity, doing its good in unostentatious ways...
...faculty of Yale College has decided to allow the members of the Glee Club three days extra at Christmas...
...around to a Broadway saloon and made him set the drinks up for the crowd. Then they made him "browse," and scan Greek and make speeches. Not satisfied with this, they decided to investigate his shapely calves; so they pulled off his stockings, and found that he wore an extra pair of them to make his calves shapely. After pointing out the error of his ways and telling that there should be nothing in the way of sham about a Yale man, they picked him up, took him to his home, and threw him into the front hallway into...
...stock; dress ties, dress studs and buttons; a new line of silk and pique ties just in; street and party gloves; extra quality linen handkerchiefs; silk umbrellas; linen collars and cuffs...