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Some decidedly interesting revelations are contained in the following editorial clipped from the Yale News. If Dr. Sargent is correctly represented it must be said that his conduct is to say the least disingenuous : "Dr. Sargent of Harvard has just been here. He came to try and perfect some arrangement by which all association with professionals and more especially professional trainers in all branches of college athletics could be done away with. He says that the Harvard athletic committee did not intend from the first to have the game with Yale given up, but only officially to show that they...
...prevalence of typhoid and material fevers among the students at Yale College is puzzling the Faculty, the members of which, one and all, aver that the sewerage and drainage of the college buildings are perfect, and that they cannot account for the unusual illness that has prevailed amony the students thus far this term. The reports of deaths have, however, been exaggerated. But two student have died of typhoid fever. and one of these contracted the disease abroad during vacation. There are now and have been a number of students more or less ill from malarial fever, but there...
...owner, sailed on her Mediterranean and African coast cruise, yesterday. Mr. Weld will be accompanied by three friends, among them Mr. R. D. Sears, and Mr. Mercer, and possibly Mr. P. Grant, Jr., will be of the party. The Gitana is fitted out for the cruise in the most perfect manner possible, no detail having been overlooked. She sails first for the Bermudas, thence to Madeira, Gibralta, the coast of Spain and the south of France, thence to Italy, Sicily, Algiers and Tangiers in Africa, the Canary Islands, Trinidad, working through the West India Islands and so north to Florida...
...second three-quarters Yale set to work desperately to recover the lost ground, but every time the ball approached our line the perfect catching and kicking of Willard saved the day, and Yale could not even score a safety. Coxe and Ketchum, whose weight aggregated about 450 pounds, tried their best to score for the blue, but were foiled in every attempt. Many of our men were conspicuous for their good tackling, notably Cochrane, Burgess and Fiske, while Brooks often gained ground by sharp rushing. As time wore on it seemed that Harvard must win, but just before the close...
...Harvard, Kendall and Bonsal rushed very well and Codman's tackling was almost perfect, while Henry's half-back play was universally acknowledged as the best work of the day. Time and again be saved us from worse defeat, and the touchdown was largely due to his remarkable kicking. The game throughout was the fairest ever played with Yale, and were it not for the deliberate fouling the Yale rushers showed in their tackling of Henry their playing seemed very straightforward...