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...congratulate the freshmen on their victory last Saturday. We felt conddent that they could defeat Yale, and were glad to see our confidence justified. The long line of Yale's victories has been broken, and we trust that Harvard freshmen will hereafter follow the example of '86. We hope the freshmen will be equally successful in the deciding game of the series...
...that the question of Gov. Butler's degree has been decided, a few comments of the press may be of interest. Those that follow were written before the overseers' meeting...
After months of speculation by the country at large, the board of overseers, contrary to popular belief, has decided not to confer the degree of LL. D. on the present governor. The question seems to be simply, whether the university should follow a somewhat questionable precedent and confer a degree upon one who was deemed unfit for it, or, breaking away from this precedent, not to give it this year, and in the future only to those who were deemed especially fitted to receive the degree. It is, of course, unpleasant to mark out in this way some particular...
Although Yale played a strong game, Harvard's defeat was undoubtedly due to the wretched inefficiency of the umpires and referee furnished by Yale. The following men played for Yale: McDowell, Cottell, Ayers, Lincoln, Connell, McCormick, McHenry, Bertron, Rollins, Mallon, Twombly and Spencer. The Harvard team was the same as in the Princeton game, except that Goodale played in place of Machado, who unfortunately was unable to play. Game was called soon after three o'clock, and the ball was kept near Yale's goal most of the time for half an hour, but owing to the sharpness of Yale...
...HERALD was quite justified, it now appears, in instancing the example of the Princeton faculty as one which our own faculty would do well to follow in abolishing the more objectionable features of the anti-professional rules. The report that the Princeton faculty had taken this action was first made on the authority of the New York papers. One of these soon contradicted the report as premature, but now it is stated that the faculty has taken action in the matter by temporarily suspending the rule against playing professionals, which is as far as its power extends, and by proposing...