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...year has already seen a remarkable change in the manner in which the Yale Union is regarded and it cannot but be looked upon as a most encouraging sign. For many years the man who tried to get good from the Union, or to improve it, or to awaken an interest in debating, was considered to waste his energies, but something has produced at least the beginnings of a change for the better. The Union began its good work when it secured new and more commodious quarters, and to a large degree, this was the cause of the growth...
...Yale Glee Club and the McGill Club, gave concerts at that institution on last Friday night and Saturday afternoon, returning to Princeton on Sunday. The trip was a very successful one in every sense. The club received every courtesy from its hosts and acquitted itself in such a manner as to sustain the good reputation which it has enjoyed in past years...
...that Yale should write first and these letters were then submitted to the chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee. He desired, after full conference, a day to consider them and to confer with certain persons, and the next evening refused to allow the compromise to be effected in this manner. This result was reached on Tuesday evening of last week. At the last moment certain prominent Harvard alumni in New York offered to write to Captain Thorne a letter urging him to write some kind of a letter to Captain Brewer, but this project was vetoed by the chairman...
...candidates for the game of push ball presented themselves on Soldiers Field yesterday. They were first instructed in the code of signals and in the manner of pushing the ball. After this they were given a few minutes practice in driving the ball. There is need of a few more large men and it is hoped that as soon as the game becomes better known there will be a large number of candidates...
...hand, who might attend upon him in his pretended ailments, intends to give his daughter, Angelique, in marriage to the new-made Dr. Diafoirus, the nephew of Purgon, his physician. Both Argan and Diafoirus are exhibiting, the former his credulity, and the latter his pedantry, in a most comical manner, which is still more striking by the cutting remarks of the servant, Toisette...