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...colleges and Yale came up here for that year. In '86, everything was arranged for going down to Yale, the date was fixed, but suddenly Yale found that the game could not be played on the day agreed upon, and having broken her agreement, came up here to prevent the game from being forfeited. It is, thus, according to the original arrangement, Yale's turn to come to Cambridge. Our freshmen, however, not insisting upon this, have consented to play the game upon neutral grounds and suggested Providence, which although rightly nearer Harvard than it is to Yale, is certainly...
...League and the American Association will be whether it is best to allow an unrestrained freedom of movement in the pitchers delivery-admitting of either a pitched, a tossed, a jerked or an overthrown ball to the bat-or to still further limit the delivery so as to prevent the direct overthrow. There is one evil in connection with the rule of an unrestricted delivery of the ball which requires careful consideration so as to put a stop to it, and that is the effort to intimidate the batsman by willfully throwing the ball at him, or so close...
...faculty now send their second warnings to parents or guardians in the form of registered letters, in order to prevent their interception by the interested students or their friends. The discovery of this plan has caused some indignation among college men, and it implies an insulting disbelief in their honor. [News...
...cannot refrain noticing the peculiar logic that the committee used when deciding to force Harvard out of the intercollegiate series of foot-ball games this year. Attention is called to the fact that rules 19, 28 and 38 are "highly objectionable" to them because the rules were framed to prevent intentional unfair playing. This leads them to the inference that, since unfair playing is guarded against, a "manly spirit of fair play is not expected," but that instead, there is a "spirit of sharpers and roughs" in the games. Then, since the sport has "degenerated into brutal and dangerous contests...
...meeting of the directors of Memorial yesterday, it was voted to place umbrella racks in the auditor's room where umbrellas may be checked free of charge. It is hoped that this measure will prevent the occasional disappearance of umbrellas, which has been so amazing in the past...