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...ball was rushed to Harvard's seven-yard line, but there the Freshmen braced and obtained the ball on downs. After that, until the end of the half, neither goal was in danger. When the second half began, the Freshmen showed a decided improvement. They carried the ball the length of the field on straight rushes, but, just as they were within striking distance of Andover's goal, off side play by Nickerson lost the ball. During the rest of the half the ball changed hands continually...
Professor Hadley's inaugural address followed. He spoke at length on some of the problems which Yale is now facing, touching on the development of professional schools as the first of the disturbing elements in college education; the elective system and its tendency to obscure the spirit of democracy; and declared the central problem to be, how to make the educational system meet the world's demands for progress on the intellectual side, without endangering the most valuable growth on the moral side...
Last spring a plan was proposed at the Observatory for the construction of a telescope of unusual length for the purpose of photographing the stars and planets. Anonymous donors have now furnished the means by which this experiment may be tried. The plan will, therefore, take definite shape, and it is expected that a telescope, having an aperture of 12 inches and a length of a hundred feet or more will be ready for trial at Cambridge in a few weeks...
...short halves which were played yesterday, the first eleven scored three times. In the first half, the second kicked off to Daly, who ran the length of the field for a touchdown. The rest of the half was devoted to line bucking, but, owing to the strong defense of the second eleven, which succeeded in holding the first on the fifteen-yard line, there was no more scoring. In the second half, the first scored twice by line plunging, Ellis and Warren carrying the ball over the line...
...activity prevented the first from gaining. After an exchange of punts, Sawin caught the ball on his own thirty-yard line and, eluding the second eleven's ends, ran eighty yards for a touchdown. In the remainder of the half the first eleven again pushed the ball the length of the field by short rushes. During the next half the first eleven, with substitute backs, scored twice. On the few occasions when the second had the ball, they lost it on downs or by fumbles. Hurley was the only man on the second who played with any considerable dash...