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...officers of the various clubs which agreed to subscribe have been abominably lazy in not collecting, or the members have been utterly blind to their obligations. A charitable view would be that the members have not thoroughly understood the matter. We hope that the state of affairs is now plain enough before them. The college will not be disposed to look kindly on the clubs if they refuse longer to pay their honest debts...
...uniforms for the Yale nine consist of the usual gray shirt and knickerbockers, with small letters of blue on the shirt, and a royal blue jersey, on which is a small white Y. The caps are plain grey, the stockings are navy blue and all the trimmings are of royal blue...
...plan seems to us to be a plain step towards a final dual league between Yale and Harvard. Harvard's desire for such an arrangement is known well enough. Any plan like this, therefore, which seems a tendency in the direction of a dual league, we heartily welcome. This present plan proposed for our track athletics, does not, it is to be supposed, preclude our competing in the Mott Haven games. Let our track athletic team contest in those intercollegiate sports as much as it likes; but first and foremost let us have our single contests with Yale...
...that his reduction of the coinage was much later than his abolition of debt, but that he did both. The nine archons were chosen by lot, as was not understood before, from forty men elected in tens by the four tribes; the division of the tribes equally into mountain, plain and seashore is now first known...
...captain of the Mott Haven team has given a call in another column for candidates for the tug-of-war team. Laying aside the consideration that Harvard is opposed to the tug-of-war as a college sport, we still have the plain fact before us that, by refusing to contest in it this year, we should deliberately lessen our chances for the Mott Haven Cup. We cannot afford to lessen these chances for victory; and for that reason the captain is making every effort to put a winning tug-of-war team in the field. The duty...