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...wish to try for the University Nine are requested to present themselves at the new Gymnasium on Monday, at two o'clock. Entrance through the engine-room...
...Captain of the University Football Team has received a letter from a graduate in New York, in which the writer calls attention to the great interest manifested there in the game, and laments that Harvard has not yet been able to take the lead. He is disappointed that the interest here is insufficient, and that our men show too little desire by hard training to ensure their success. He closes by expressing the hope that next year a marked improvement may be shown in this respect; and that, by beginning early and working hard, Harvard may justly claim the victory...
...best of the monthlies, with an excellent article on Goldsmith, a well-written, though rather sensational story, a very good critical article on Shakspere's two methods of suggesting time, as shown in Othello, and several short pieces on different subjects. The editors think we ought to have some new college songs, in which desire every one will agree with them who has the misfortune to room next to a Freshman who thinks "Naughty Clara" is the latest thing...
...best. The fact that Wm. S. Kimball & Co have come out far ahead of all other manufacturers in both countries is unmistakable proof that their goods are the best the world produce. Their tobacco and cigarettes will henceforth be on sale in Paris as freely as in New York, but no other make, except the French, will be found there. In other words, the French government, on the report of its experts, declares the Vanity Fair tobacco and cigarettes of Wm. S. Kimball & Co the best in the world...
IMMEDIATELY after the Yale-Princeton game, there appeared an editorial in the New York Tribune on the subject of football. The tone of the article was against football in general, which is considered by the writer to be a "rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more...