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...game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper: Just before Yale made her second touch down an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Yover the Yale team...
Since the Renaissance there have been four principal motives for search and study of medeaeval ideals. First the humanist desire to perfect the literary style of the day. Second the patriotic instinct regarding a country's past. Third, the fancifal interest in Chivalry of the Romantic movement, and fourth the desire of jurists to trace the development of law. Beside these dilletantiism led to the revival of the trouvier and troubadours...
There was a tremendous crowd of people at the game but they were exceedingly well managed. The police force was efficient and the arrangements for distributing and seating the crowd were wellnigh perfect...
Such an opinion, however, is not in any wise held in disparagement of the work of the Yale men. On the contrary, it shows that their work is to be admired the more. Yale's play was well-nigh perfect. The interference upon every rush was superb and the tackling and quick breaking through when Harvard had the ball were remarkable. The rush-line played as one man, and together with the backs formed an irresistible front for both Harvard's offensive and defensive play. At every point was Yale tried and at none was she found wanting...
Cary, as is said, has Miltonized Dante and Mr. Longfellow's work while the best in metre is often misleading. In Professor Norton's translation the sense is rendered literally and almost word for word in prose, perfect in strength and elegance. The charm imparted by such flawless form in which each word chosen is felt to be the only word perfectly suited, is so great that one reads and forgets to miss the swing of a metre...