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The first objection is not warranted, unless it is maintained that to go about among and deal with men is to engender corruption; for there is nothing in the competition of athletic sports any more than in other competitions of life that necessarily corrupts the morals. The other two objections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COL. WM. A. BANCROFT ON COLLEGE ATHLETICS. | 4/23/1884 | See Source »

Early in May Grant moved across the river to a position near the old battle field of Chancellorsville and in the thickly wooded district known as the "Wilderness." His object was to pass to the south of General Lee and get into the open country so that his numerical superiority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN. | 4/23/1884 | See Source »

To Spottsylvania Court House, still further south, was Grant's next move, but Lee was there first, and entrenched. The Federal army was again ordered to attack, and, although a few charges were successful, the main movement was a failure, The salient held by the enemy was captured, but they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN. | 4/23/1884 | See Source »

It is reported that there will be numerous changes in the English department which will give it the which will give it the position of importance that it deserves. Professor Child's course, the present English I., is to be made into a two years course similar to his Shakespeare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1884 | See Source »

The Yale News, in condescending to notice our editorial in reference to President Eliot's remarks on the subject of base-ball, asks us "to reconcile the president's position with the attitude assumed by the Harvard committee in withdrawing from the conference in the way that they did." It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/19/1884 | See Source »