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...said," says the Yale News, "that the Harvard team have done well; they have brought honor to their college and they deserve the high place which they hold in the contest for the championship. They tried no block game when they found themselves unable to cope successfully, if fairly, with our men; they played for the sake of the game, like well-trained athletes, and for all they were worth...
...Americans certainly this report will naturally suggest unamiable reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance, We venture to assert that nowhere in America has such a brutal and disgraceful performance ever taken place at any of our colleges. The tu-quoque argument will not relieve Americans from any of the blame for the evils of hazing, but it certainly can tend to reduce the magnitude of our offences in the eyes of a stern and unsympathizing public to listen to such accounts as this...
...riot took place at Fayetteville, N. C., last evening, during which over 100 persons engaged in a fight, in which knives were freely used. Twenty of the combatants were wounded, some of them fatally. A man named Underwood was fatally shot. The riot was caused by a party of drunken men, who attacked several citizens in the street...
Harvard cannot defeat Yale at foot-ball unless she consents to place on her team men who will substitute roughness for skill and professional enmity for amateur courtesy. But such a team will never represent Harvard, and may they never bear its honored name. A few such contests as that of Saturday will blast forever the reputation of foot-ball as being a commendable inter-collegiate game...
Friday's Transcript contains a highly appreciative criticism a column long on the window of the class of 1860, recently placed in Memorial Hall. The writer says: "Much has been done during the last few years to embellish Harvard University, both by private endowment and by co-operation among the classes which have graduated from the college. The Sanders Theatre, the Hemenway Gymnasium and the Memorial Hall, are all objects of interest to the visitor who is "doing" Cambridge. During the past summer an interesting feature has been added to Memorial Hall. The lack of interest in this shown...