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...students of Ohio Wesleyan have raised $1500 to fit up their base-ball grounds...
...question is when is this state of things coming to an end? Manifestly not when two individuals who have been committing systematic robbery, are allowed to go free after paying a fine of fifteen dollars. Yet such was the penalty that the court of Cambridge saw fit to inflict on the aforesaid freshmen. When thieves can systematically steal with a small risk of detection, in spite of the watchful vigilance of those in charge of the gymnasium, and when, if detected, they can go scott free by paying a sumequal to not one quarter of what they stole...
...meeting. The opinion of such graduates as these, men of all ages and of large experience, should have great weight with the members of the faculty. The views of the undergraduates may be cast aside, but those of the Alumni must command respect. The Board of Overseers have seen fit to lay upon the table the petition of a large number of graduates in favor of allowing the nine to play with professionals, and we are glad that the alumni do not intend to let the matter rest there. As we have often said before, Harvard University cannot afford...
...college would be very perceptibly to diminish the interest of the students in that college as a whole by removing one of the most effective and legitimate means of arousing their loyalty to it. As I say, I shall be very much surprised and disappointed if the faculty see fit to pass the resolutions...
...college four years, have not yet learned what is expected of gentlemen. Their actions on Jarvis Field Thursday afternoon might be excusable in school boys, but hardly in men about to graduate from Harvard College. There was absolutely no excuse for the personal ridicule some of the seniors saw fit to bring on the men in the Freshman team. The sallies undoubtedly seemed funny to the eighty-eight men, but they sounded both flat and low to every one else. Both the members of the Ninety-one nine and all the freshmen who witnessed the game deserve commendation...