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...working in the same direction for a series of years; and if, every year, twenty men with position, resolution and tact, would make it their business to resent offenses against the tone of the college in character and conduct, we should end by imbuing the very atmosphere with an honor, manliness, pride and delicacy, to which all things could be entrusted, and which would be the most precious thing a young fellow coming here would gain,- worth far more to him than his learning or his degree. There is no reason why, in a little community like this, the tone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter from Professor James Concerning Celebrations. | 6/8/1885 | See Source »

...occasions for demonstration being pitches, strikes, called balls and Yale errors, indiscrimimately with points scored by Brown. The Brown men boasted that it was very dishonorable conduct and said they learned it in New Haven. Now we have yet to learn that it is not a point of honor with Yale men not to cheer at opponent's errors." But how about that Dartmouth game last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/6/1885 | See Source »

...good a one as this, while one who has not seen a match can spend his time no better than by going to the game to-day. It ought not to be necessary to urge the college to support a team which wins such honor for it, but every man ought to feel it a duty to go out to-day, and pay as his subscription the small admission fee demanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/4/1885 | See Source »

...winning of the inter-collegiate championship was, in itself, honor enough for the lacrosse team, but when that achievement is supplemented by the capture of the Oelrichs cup, emblematic of the championship of America, the college may justly feel proud of its representatives in this sport. The work of the twelve during the past year has been faithful and hard,- its result has been shown in the series of almost uninterrupted victories won from strong teams. The lacrosse team of '82 held both the college championship and the Oelrichs cup; the '83 team held the collegiate championship only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/2/1885 | See Source »

...senior honor man on being told that the change battery would be used in the Harvard (exhibition) game, asked if new batters would be put in all around.- Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/30/1885 | See Source »

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