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...substantial injustice is done to the negro by this policy.- (a) He takes practically no interest in politics: North Am. Review CLIII, 649 (December, 1891).- (b) The best thought among the negroes today seeks social and economic progress rather than political privileges: Outlook, Sept. 18. 1895; North Am. Review CLIII, 650 (December...
...reason stated, entail a cessation of athletic relations between the Universities for some seasons, Professor Ames intended to write before taking so serious a step to ask whether the Yale policy was definitely for or against the arrangement in all the branches of athletics. If Yale would rather meet Harvard in none of the sports than meet her in football in the autumn, he was going to ask her to tell him so frankly...
...secon half the line-up was almost entirely different from what it was in the first half. The playing on both sides was rather slow and stubborn. The teams were very evenly matched, so that neither side scored...
...late; and Harry Cross, the only reliable candidate for center rush in the field, being obliged to train part of the time with the track athletic team, for which he will throw the hammer against the Cambridge team next Saturday. Louis Hinkey and Bass are playing ends, Bass doing rather the best work. Murphy has played tackle one day and Chadwick the same length of time. Rogers and Murray are playing guards...
Real literary ability seems but rarely to be attained at Harvard, or rather it rarely makes itself evident through the medium of the College periodicals. To explain this we must admit that the interest in this particular line of work is not sufficiently general. What really good writing there is from time to time, is the work of but a few men. We are not, however, disposed to believe that with these few the literary skill of the entire College is exhausted. There must be more clever writers in Harvard than ever contribute to either Monthly, Advocate, or Lampoon. Whether...