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...conductor and driver. They also propose to follow up the car with a small army of students, and have a "rough and tumble," as they call it, with the strikers. At a conference this forenoon they decided to ask the city officials for a license and then to offer their services to the company. The faculty have been notified and the scheme will probably be killed. - N. Y. Evening Post...
...Advocate terms this a "magnanimous offer of itself," on the part of the Courant, although wholly voluntary and gratuitous as a "guardian angel" to American college base-ball; and the Courant in reply, complains of the "whining, whipped dog" tone of the Advocate. This, of course, did not go unanswered, and so the war continued...
...offer to the indignation of our readers the dreadful state of affairs below stairs in our precious Memorial Hall. We have long imagined that we upstairs were getting the food intended for Mr. S-II-v-n's hirelings, as we could hardly conceive it possible that worse food than was set before us was easily obtainable anywhere. However, this betrays a rank and horrible system of persecution and injustice. Imagine the hungry students, being fed on elegant cold slabs of colorless meat, while the poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves...
...heavy weight wrestling, pole vault, light weight wrestling, spring board jump, tug-of-war, hitch and kick. Heretofore it has been the custom for first prizes only to be given in the tug-of-war event, but in order to insure success in that event, the Athletic Association will offer second prizes for tug-of-war as well as for all other events. Teams and individuals have commenced work in the gymnasium with special reference to those winter sports, and a grand contest is expected. - Princetoman...
...Boston 97 to 11; "a fine exhibition in the eyes of the ladies, but which did not at all satisfy the expectations of the amateurs." Again, in the same paper we find a complaint that the second nine has in "three well-contested matches" defeated the Harvard nine. "We offer no comment," says the Advocate, "none is needed...