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...this profession must face, Mr. Perry recalls how one writer was convinced that a certain institution was using methods which were prejudicial to his best interests in order to win a football game from its rival. He wrote fearlessly and checked the practise--but as a result is "persona non grate to the football faculty of that institution and is set down as a man merely intent upon venting personal grievances...
...feature of the picnic will be the playing of an exhibition baseball game by the Phi Beta Kappa men with any nine non-professional players constituting a regular team. It is expected that this contest will put the finishing touches on the Phi Beta Kappa team before its game with the Yale key men on Monday...
Some time during the day, in order to get some practice for their game with the Yale key men on May 30, and also to provide additional entertainment to the picnicers, the Phi Beta Kappa baseball men will meet in an exhibition game any nine players representing any non-professional group, and constituting a regulation ball team...
Evidently American and British hospitality are not so widely divergent after all. We have always been taught to think the British reserved and non-committal, and have rather prided ourselves on cur furious hospitality and careless assumption of familiarity--the traits with which Dickens drew Colonel Diver. The "man on the street" may still up-hold these traditions, but with the colleges it is apparently otherwise. The supposedly staid Cantabrigians are the ones who clamber over carriages, while with all its Americanism Harvard has never been known to cause its visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums...
Bates College has definitely accepted the challenge of Oxford University for a debate June 7. The Bates team has already started preparation on the affirmative of the question presented by the English team: "Resolved, That this house approves the American policy of non-interference in European affairs." The necessary funds for the trip to England will be raised by popular subscription...