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...ability, the game at Yale is one of those land-marks in the history of every freshman class, the retrospect of which is always pleasant. If the nine win, nothing will surpass the joy of those who witnessed the victory and by their presence and encouragement helped keep Yale "off the fence;" if defeat be their fate, the complimentary dinner tendered all the Harvard men after the game will purge their melancholy...
...gift of recently graduated classes. These windows are suffering from sheer neglect; and not only have many of the leads fallen out, but some of the smaller pieces of glass have shaken from their places. A very little care would repair the damage already done, as well as keep the windows in their proper condition for the future. The college can ill afford to allow these windows to fall into decay apparently from indifference. It is unjust both to those whose kind thoughtfulness has given these memorials, as well as to the large body of students who meet daily...
...Overseers. They seem to think that the time given to athletics is so much taken from study, while, as a matter of fact, it is just that class which is naturally least inclined to study that enters most heartily into athletics. The "training" which these men have to keep is certainly beneficial, and often restrains the thoughtless from actions to which they would otherwise be inclined. The influence upon the college of two hundred and fifty of the most active and most popular of the undergraduates, who through the pursuit of athletics are made to lead regular and whole-some...
...others who are interested. On Saturday evening an officious police officer ordered these scores taken down, on the ground that they collected a crowd outside. As a rule, Cambridge policemen are a pretty moderate set of men, but this particular one is rather too zealous. His business was to keep the sidewalk clear and keep people moving; if he was too lazy to undertake this he might have sent to headquarters for a more efficient officer. A police officer who thinks he rules the world simply because he wears brass buttons and carries a club is a public nuisance...
...been proposed to keep an error column in cricket. It would undoubtedly have a tendency to brace up the fielding and show what an important branch of the game...