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...been explained in various ways, but the principal reason seems to be that the science of the game is better understood at Yale than elsewhere. There the team receives the benefit of an old experienced player who devotes the greater part of his time in the fall to the interest of the football men. The presence of a reliable coach of course relieves the captain of a large part of his responsibility and thus enables him to devote more time to playing and to the care of the men while on the field. Although much of this advantage is lost...
...October "Atlantic" is one of unusual interest. Among the articles of especial worth is a continuation of "In War Times" by Dr. Weir Mitchell, a powerful description of the Battle of Lake George by Francis Parkman, the story of condition of the Southern Colleges and schools, and articles on an "English Literary Cousin," a "Bourgeois Family," the "Migrations of the gods," etc. There are poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Celia Thaxter and Augustus M. Lord. The departments are up to the usual standard...
...excitement which was felt in the decisive Yale-Harvard base ball game last June is well illustrated by the following: "The opinion was well-nigh universal that for intense, sustained and towards the last positively painful interest, the game has been unequalled in the last ten years. In the eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down...
...just passed, however, the college has improved in this respect and we can but ask to receive the same support, both literary and pecuniary, for another year. We shall endeavor to make the paper what it has ever attempted to be, a newspaper of college news, devoted to the interest and welfare of Harvard and her students. In accomplishing this end we depend upon the students to assist us. A paper, to be of the college, must be supported by the college. It concerns us all, its success is our success, its failure is our failure...
...fact that Prof. Jebb, of Glasgow University, will deliver the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at its regular annual meeting next Thursday, lends especial interest to his new edition of Sophocles, of which the first volume, containing the Oedipus Tyrannus, is already out. This edition, which is to be completed in eight volumes, one for each play, with an additional volume devoted to the fragments and supplementary matter, is the result of a long cherished design on the part of the editor, to embody in a single work all that is necessary for a study of his author...