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...have a right to expect much advantage from their street training this year, and they must not fail to have it count in the score. Besides Cabot's effective play, Bonsal and Codman played brilliantly and steadily for Harvard, while Field did very good work for the visitors. Gilman was temporarily disabled at the beginning of the second half, and his place was taken by Crane. Several of the Williams players were forced to leave the field, but their injuries were only slight. The total number of points...
...following clipping, taken from the editorial columns of the Detroit Evening Journal can not fail to be of interest as an apt illustration of the insane ideas held by many on the subject of college athletics. The elegant language and rational sentiments contained in this extract are particularly noticeable, and cause the feeling of entertainment which arises at first sight, to deepen into the most heart-felt pity for the unfortunate perpetrators...
...change of feeling towards chapel which has taken place but when one investigates it more carefully, it will be found that it is very great indeed. And if our ancestors could but come back for a day and look at this feature of the present university, they would doubtless fail to recognize this modern development of their stern ideas...
...reversed, and the graceful Virgil holding his scroll of verses turns his back upon the blind bard. It is to be hoped that this error will be corrected, as it might be at a small expense and trouble. If one did no know of the fault, one would probably fail to detect it, yet after it has been pointed out, it lets us see and think of nothing else. There is a certain appropriateness in the juxtaposition of Homer and Virgil, which in some of the other windows is sadly lacking Men who in no wise belong together...
...continually tempted to complain that the faculty fail to give us one advantage and another which the students of other colleges enjoy. It is, therefore, particularly pleasant to occasionally congratulate ourselves on the points in which we are more favored than others. Most of us take the reading room very much of course, and hardly think to thank the powers that be for the pleasure and profit we derive from it, or realize that even such a well equipped college as Harvard has no such institution. A recent editorial in one of the Harvard papers laments that "While Yale...