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...gives promise of success in the future. A game of such length makes extraordinary demands on the pitcher and the catcher, to which our representatives were fully equal. The only feature that we can criticize is the base-running, which is still open to much improvement. When the nine learn that carelessness is not the characteristic of fine fase-running, we think that there is very little more to be expected...
...much space in a Yale periodical is, of course, complimentary to us, but at the risk of being thought ungrateful, we timidly offer a few comments. The editorial on the freshman game redeems Yale from the charge that that college cannot produce anything humorous. We feel pained to learn that the "annual and alwaysto-be-expected streak of Harvard meanness" has again cropped out, especially as the News disapproves, and are really glad to hear that the Courant decides that Yale's claim in regard to the first freshman game is valid. Strange as it may seem...
...glad to learn that the elective pamphlet, which will be issued in a few days, will show a commendable increase in the French courses for the coming year. The present courses, which are eight in number, will be increased to eleven. Two new courses will be added in composition and conversation, which bid fair to be very interesting, as the conversation will be made quite a feature in each. The courses at present numbered five and six, will be raised to full courses, and a new course in Romance philology will be added. The graded courses, one to four, will...
...your address. Somewhat dazed, you inform him and continue your walk, wondering at the customs of the German student and congratulating yourself on your witty reply. In time you return to your lodgings, when the first thing that meets your eyes is a challenge lying on your table. You learn subsequently that the words exchanged between the German and yourself are the regular preliminaries of a duel...
...does not prevail) until the reader finds some one production which really appeals to him. The author of this becomes in his estimation the only one worth reading. Third, from this he at length begins to branch out, and, having once appreciated the force of literary beauty, he gradually learns to appreciate it in other writers, and to distinguish their excellencies from their defects. From this, Mr. Wendell draws his plan for studying literature. He recommends, in the place of any systematic course of reading, a general rummage among all writers who come favorably to one's notice. When...