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...following is an extract from an editorial in the Yale News: "The Freshman nine is starting out in a way very similar to last year's defeated Freshman nine, and we doubt not but that the same result will follow, unless a change is soon effected. They are doing no systematic work in the gymnasium, and but few are practicing with any regularity...
Wasington's birthday will be a gala day at Princeton. The Dramatic Association will initiate the ceremonies by the presentation of "Our Boys," the evening before. The Junior Cotillion will follow. The exercises on the following morning will consist of four orations, by representatives of the four classes, the Senior oration being a humorous and witty production. The college orchestra will furnish the music on this occasion. The winter sports will be held in the gym. in the afternoon, and in the evening a prize debate for the "class of '78 prize." The debate will be between four men, each...
...convinced that five or six inches of water would make as smooth a field of ice as three or four feet would. Every winter a mass of snow-ice accumulates on Holmes Field, sometimes to a considerable depth; none of the dire calamities which the gentleman predicts would follow artificial flooding, have ever yet occurred, and I am sure a few inches of ice will have no perceptible effect on the field in the spring...
...American scholarship and letters has been doubled; the size of the classes has increased from about one hundred to very nearly three; and the great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow, or be worse distanced than now. Religion is no longer forced upon the students, who are left to form their religious convictions with mature thought, and not to imbibe early in life a feeling of hostility and contempt for all religion. Perhaps it is to be deplored that Harvard's proximity...
...drawbacks are no more, and the helps no less in this age than in any other; the grace of God has never been kinder and stronger than it is now. It is a good time to live, to have noblest and purest ideals, to follow Jesus Christ, the leader of this age and all ages. "Now is the accepted time, and behold, now is the day of salvation...