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...foot-ball match with Princeton this fall her eleven demonstrated one thing pretty clearly, and that is that the rules adopted at the last inter-collegiate convention to prevent the old so-called "block game" were totally unavailing when put to the test. The game employed by Princeton was entirely justifiable by the rules, and under the circumstances was, without doubt, the very safest and most reasonable method she could employ. Had Harvard been in her place she would have undoubtedly used the same means to hold her advantage. But by this method should an inferior eleven chance by accident...
...giving up our annual Yale game of foot-ball. I believe that after the exhibition given us by Yale last Saturday, that every Harvard man who wishes to keep up the tone of college athletics, will approve of any action taken by the eleven or the corporation to prevent its repetition. The only method of doing this is the extreme one of refusing to play Yale hereafter. Now that the college faculty has taken such pains to eradicate all professionalism from college athletics, I think they should go further and endeavor to keep out all "Yaleism." I do not wish...
...made application at the railroad offices last June for reduced tickets they were told that the companies had decided to make no concessions. The facts of the case were that all roads running out of Boston (for the West, at least,) had made a combination whose object was to prevent "cut" rates. Several students took the trouble to write to New York to the railroad headquarters asking for reduced terms to clubs. By return mail they received a large bundle of hand-bills and time-cards, setting forth the merits of the various roads, but their request for "cut" rates...
...Rugby teams are showing some good playing, but the location of the college will prevent our seeing them pitted against those of other colleges...
...argument for protection to young industries, in its application to the United States. The essential part of this argument, he said, lay in the fact that the obstacles to the establishment of the young industries were supposed to be temporary and artificial, of such a character as would not prevent the final establishment of the industry, even without protection. Then he considered the course of industrial history and of protective legislation during the period from 1816 to about 1840. Before the tariff of 1816 there was no effective protective legislation, hence it is only to the period after 1816 that...