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...first place, the idea of allowing the Yale race to take a place of secondary importance, by making our race with Columbia the principal object of our training, is pure, unadulterated nonsense. It is to beat Yale that we subscribe our money and give up our leisure hours to training. Who ever has thought of the Columbia race as anything but an exceedingly subordinate affair? We believe that we express the true sentiments of the college and university at large when we say that the Yale race should be rowed under any reasonable consideration, and that the Columbia race should...
...whence among men; who were his parents and where is his goodly dwelling?" But I have never learned the answers to these questions. The problem of the man with the iron mask counts as nothing with me; here is a secret twice as strange and impenetrable. Some noble object must be his; why does he linger among us - among us and yet not of us? Is he a Polish exile; or was his home once in Iceland's unhappy isle? What is the mystery of his existence...
...quite agree with our contemporary that it should be checked. But such considerations are beside the point at issue - as to the advisability of narrowing the college league. The Athenoeum mistakes when it says a trifle savagely and bitterly : "To discover which crowd can beat is the sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged...
...worthy of note that the amendments made at the last convention of the association, which were intended to do away with the "block game" and to put a stop to foul play in tackling men either before or after they have the ball, have entirely failed in their object. Princeton played the block game successfully in the Harvard match of Nov. 18, and Yale indulged in foul tackling at the match of the 25th, the rules in both instances failing to check these objectionable features. The fact is, our colleges will never play a legitimate foot-ball game until they...
...unity and good feeling which have attended the class of '83 at Harvard at all times, even in the awarding of final honors of office, is an object of remark. - [New York Post...