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...about Yale's athletics, the Yale papers are the last place to go to for reliable information. If Yale has a good crew her papers take particular pains to make us believe that it is a very poor one. In fact, they are willing to do almost anything to put Harvard off her guard, and to inspire her with an overconfidence. Yale correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From a letter from Yale to the New York Tribune...
...they blew out the whole side of University. Of course any one could have thought of that, but it required lots of nerve to do it, and do it in such a way as to escape detection. At another time they were going to have a big time here putting up the flag-pole. They were going to put up the pole on the morning of the Fourth of July, and left it lying on the ground the night of the third. A party of students went there that night, and painted the whole length of it with green paint...
...demonstration of the Harvard students against Oscar Wilde at his Boston lecture is attributed to his "manager," who cunningly put them up to the trick without their knowing that he was at the bottom of it. The newspapers were also informed of the demonstration beforehand which insured a big audience. The game his manager will play to secure an audience in Detroit will probably not be known until after he has come and gone. He does not play the same one in any two places. - [Detroit Free Press...
...cometh the young man who purchaseth the admission ticket for the frivolous showhouse, for a shekel that is of the value of one dollar, and wanteth to sell it to his companions for skekels of the value of three dollars. When the prophet saith, "put money in thy purse," he meaneth not that thou shouldst strive to found a national bank in thy vest pocket. Selah...
...Cornell Sun continues to put in a semioccasional appearance. We like the Sun; there is nothing about it to excite much thought or any partial feeling. When we are tired, we lie down, take up the last copy of the Sun, and are sure to fall immediately into blissful and quiet slumber. Now that the kidnapping excitement is over, and the freshman supper is a thing of the buried past, what will the poor Sun editor find to write about...