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...senior is a host and hundreds of their guests demand accommodation. Such action is intensely mean and thoroughly detestable. We trust that it is simply thoughtlessness that has caused these under-class men to refuse. With the case thus put before them they should not hesitate a moment to offer their rooms to those who so sadly need them on class...
...practice than rowing in the gymnasium. It seems to us that they ought to take every advantage of an opportunity to row on the river, so as to aid them to regain their lost laurels. Yale has been rowing on the water for the past month. We do not offer this as advice, but just as a suggestion...
...moreover a Christian idea; and however much men outside of the faith may have equalled or surpassed Christians in the development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power of Christian humanitarianism lay in its threefold presentation - by the Gospel, Preaching and the Church. Christianity had proved in the past...
Yale men were very confident, and willing to offer odds on their nine. It had beaten the Princeton nine, which called itself "the Nassau Club," 30 to 23, and the Lowells, Harvard's old antagonists. Harvard had a try at these same "Nassaus," and came off first best by the narrow margin of one run (17 to 16). "The visitors seemed younger and lighter than the Harvard nine, . . but were decidedly active and spry," says the Advocate. Harvard's play was good and steady throughout in a "tremendously exciting game," won by a lucky hit in the last inning...
...Whereas, The Harvard Base-ball Club, recognizing the crippled condition of the Lowell nine to-day, caused by the sickness of three of its members, did so very generously offer and insist upon postponing the match game, and desired to play a practice game instead...