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...action of Yale last Friday in refusing to concede anything to keep Dartmouth in the inter-collegiate base-ball league, seems hardly excusable. Harvard would have played one game in Hanover, while Princeton promised to play both championship games on neutral grounds, but both of these plans were defeated by Yale absolutely refusing to change the arrangement existing since '83, when Dartmouth entered the league. By this action a nine of skillful and gentlemanly players has been obliged to withdraw. Every Harvard man will feel regret that we have lost Dartmouth from among our annual visitors, and we personally express...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/17/1886 | See Source »

...ball stock is way above par this year and that it would be in the worst possible taste for them to do anything that would lower the value in the least, there is no reason why they should not only defeat some of the surrounding high schools, but also keep the Yale freshmen from their doubtless uncomfortable but nevertheless glorious place on the fence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1886 | See Source »

...whatever displayed in the choice of window hangings. Now it may be said that it is not for all of us to be apostles of "sweetness and light," or even to be true disciples of Oscar Wilde; but it is possible for every man with a little care to keep his room clean and tidy, to put up a bit of fresh, pretty muslin over his windows, and at little or no expense to make the whole apartment attractive and pleasant both for himself and for all who may chance to call upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/9/1886 | See Source »

...Droppers, G. P. Baker, Jr., and R. W. Keep have been elected members of the Philosophical Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/5/1886 | See Source »

...weak finish. His slide gets ahead of his shoulders. No. 6 does not get his shoulders on at all. He overreaches and hangs on the full reach. He gets a weak finish and is slow in starting out. No. 5 does not get his shoulders on, and fails to keep time. He overreaches and does not hold his head up. When he starts to come back he wobbles badly, and swings back too far. No. 4 is stiff and wants to row his shoulders back hard. He pulls as if he were asleep, and very irregularly, rowing pretty well some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Crew. | 3/4/1886 | See Source »