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...Wallace sent his essay to Darwin, asking him, if he saw fit, to forward it to Sir Charles Lyell for publication. Lyell and Hooker agreed to publish it only on condition that he (Darwin) would at the same time give to the public the memoirs that they had for so many years endeavored to persuade him to publish, and which they had perused as far back as 1844. The result was, that the essays of Darwin and Wallace were presented, under one title, before the Linnean Society on June...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Now that the government of the college has seen fit to have board walks placed in the yard, the spirit of grumbling inherent in human nature must find place in some other grievance. The most evident evils now are the pools and running water which collect at the western entrance of the yard. Cannot these streams be bridged over or induced to find some other channel than the pathway of instructors and students...
...true inwardness of Yale's position in the base-ball question is beginning to be understood at New Haven, for the determination of Princeton and Harvard to leave her to contest with the smaller colleges, if she does not see fit to join them, has begun to work consequences of no little moment. It is reported that some members of the nine are about to give up practice if they are to be compelled to play with inferior nines. Although the college has voted once for all not to join the triangular league, still another meeting will probably be called...
...Yale insists on imposing conditions, there can be no doubt about the position Harvard should take. Under those circumstances we should withdraw at once, and refuse to play any games whatever with Yale until she should see fit to play with us on fair terms. Princeton undoubtedly, regards the matter in the same light. Let us then stand firm for the main idea of the original proposition and take no half-way measures...
Yale has seen fit to overrule the opinions of her most prominent base-ball men, and to accept those of her boating men and ten-year graduates, thereby placing herself in an unenviable light before the eyes of other large colleges. As the matter stands now, it seems to have narrowed down to one of two disagreeable alternatives: either that Yale desires to emulate the big boy in the primary class and have a chance to "lick" all the little boys without interference; or, as the Courant fitly says, Yale men "are altogether too prone to imagine other colleges prejudiced...