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...sale of tickets for the Springfield game was more successful this year than ever before. Last year the system of assigning seats on application was first introduced, and this year it met with perfect success. So many applications were received that all the seats on the Harvard side of the field as well as many in the end sections were taken. Each application was given the best seat left, under its conditions, the result being that many got seats further from the middle of the field than they could have wished...
...coaches except Stewart and Harding, gave them their attention. Praise was given to the second, blame to the first. It was just what the first eleven needed. If the second can be kept up to the standard set yesterday, the first will be obliged to have almost perfect interference to gain against them, precisely as they will at Springfield...
...conference yesterday was peaceable and harmonious throughout and reflects credit on the good sense of those who had the matter in charge. As everyone expected who was familiar with the articles of agreement between the universities, there was very little discussion about the undergraduate rule. It has been perfectly clear from the beginning of the trouble over the rule that Yale had a perfect right, if she so wished, to limit her teams to undergraduate players, and that Harvard had as good a right to put any team into the field which she liked, so long as that team conformed...
...other respects the run was very successful. The roads were in fine condition, and the weather was perfect. Under these circumstances it was expected that a good number would come out. At the first run last year, there were twenty men at the start, and at the second a good many more appeared...
...their sakes I sanctify myself," taken from the seventeenth chapter of the gospel of St. John. For hundreds of years, he said, the tendency in the church and in the whole world has been towards individualism. Every man should work for himself and his first duty was to perfect himself for his own sake. Within the last few years there has arisen a spirit of socialism regarding the individual as of no consequence, but the good of the whole world or the whole nation as the only thing worth considering. The Christian point of view is explained by Christ...