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...first place there was nothing novel in that proposal. The Yale and, Harvard nines have repeatedly played off a tie after Commencement Day. Indeed until Yale declined last year to follow the uniform precedents of twenty years, no question was ever raised as to the propriety of an arrangement like that proposed by us. Nor do we see how it could be more difficult for your nine to play ball as late as the Thursday or the Saturday of Commencement week than it is for your crew to row on Friday of that week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/6/1893 | See Source »

...with a decidedly more liberal spirit. She aimed to preserve a plan by which thoroughly representative teams could be had by any and every college. To do this she attempted no compulsory measures, but adopted her own regulations for the purification of athletics, leaving it for others to follow or not as they pleased. This policy commended itself to the majority of colleges and universities in this portion of the country. The University of Pennsylvania, which would have been, under the undergraduate rule. the most crippled of any of the colleges, was probably the most in sympathy with Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/19/1893 | See Source »

...follow Christ will do two things, it will help men to keep straight themselves and it will help other men to keep straight The education of the world has been done by Christianity, and America, in its politics, in its commerce sorely needs the influence of strong and right-minded men today. It is not that men who do not follow Christ are always sinful, but they are always wasteful. They live out of the main current of history. The grandest truths are not to be entrusted to the poorest specimens of manhood. They need and must have strong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Drummond's Talk. | 4/18/1893 | See Source »

...various new courses follow no special line of work, but are added in nearly all lines of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Changes in the Academic Course at Yale. | 3/27/1893 | See Source »

There is a tendency, however among some of the colleges to follow in the steps of the National League. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and a few others, have agreed to stand on the old footing. Apparently their policy is a definite one and we sincerely hope that all amateurs may see fit to make their own regulations and not to follow unquestion ably the whi+++s of professional baseball magnates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1893 | See Source »

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