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...York papers say that the polo grounds never held so many or so wildly enthusiastic spectators; the return of the victors through the avenue on a coach called out the flutter of banners and choruses of cheers from the windows and balconies and pavements, and the newspaper press sent out a half dozen extras to announce the result. And when we consider the character of the attendants upon the game, it is certainly suggestive of its immense power over the people-and the people who both make and reflect public opinion...
There are often occasions in which the press is unfair to college students and their customs, but the defamers of the game of foot-ball have a certain license in their attacks which is not allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following...
Under this title, Mr. W. Goodrich Beal has brought together six original etchings of glimpses in and about Harvard Square. This is Mr. Beal's first publication. Indeed his name has hitherto been unknown, but this work has already received high praise from the Boston press, and deserves to win no small share of recognition. Perhaps the best of the etchings-certainly the most delicate and expressive one-is that of the old church-yard with the low tower of Christ Church amid the trees. It is full of the beauful air of repose which has endeared Gray's "Elegy...
Harvard modestly makes no claim to beating Yale and Princeton. Her only ambition is to keep the scores within a decent limit.- Phila. Press...
...Williams College Press has an idea that Harvard will play its eleven at Williamstown, November 12. This is not the case as that is the day of the Princeton game in Cambridge...