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...other spheres of activity. However, they are all undergraduates and because of this fact it is though that Yale's representatives one of whom is a Law School man and another a theologian, will be superior. However, Princeton's record in debating in the past has been her pride and every effort in the power of the debaters will be put forward to maintain that standard...
Saturday's football game was one in which every Harvard man has a right to take pride. It was a first rate contest from beginning to end, won fairly and squarely by Pennsylvania, lost pluckily and honorably by Harvard. Certainly, however disappointed we may be that the final score was against us, we can feel that there was a decided victory for good clean sport, a victory in which Harvard shared not less than Pennsylvania and upon which both can look with equal satisfaction...
...somewhat accustomed Harvard to chagrin at the sight of "star" backs helpless for lack of proper interference; but it is hard to accept the fact that the staying power of the team has been overestimated. Still, though the physical training of the men is a point in which much pride has been taken, the lesson of the game with Princeton must not be disregarded. Repeated defeat must be made the guide to victory, or it will become the cause of a discouragement which will prove disastrous to athletics at Harvard...
...have been in doubt as to the meaning of a letter sent by me to you last spring, in reference to football. I wish Yale's position to be clearly understood, and now address this letter to you in order that no possible ambiguity may remain. There is a pride Yale will not pay for college sports. She considers them worth preserving with competitors in whose sportsmanship she has confidence, and who have reciprocal confidence in her sportsmanship. This also means her clean, honorable, forbearing rivalry on every field. She was led to doubt whether Harvard still extended that confidence...
...history of the Prospect Union given in another column must be as interesting to new members of the University as it is a pride to all who have been here long enough to become acquainted with its character and aims. Such a work as this, in that it shows the University as a living force in the community and not as a mere repository of information is as near an embodiment of the ideal of a university as is to be found in any place...