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...rather strange that a nine which made as good a showing as Cornell did here should have been beaten by the Amhersts. Yet such is the fact. And still Amherst allows herself to be beaten by Dartmouth by a score of 13 to 1. Cornell beat Dartmouth...
...taken in satisfying my curiosity. I sent them a circular last week asking for information about their expenses, and already the larger number of them have replied. I wish it were possible for me to acknowledge their letters individually and to tell them how kind I think them. A rather intrusive question has been answered with courtesy. Men have replied with much minuteness, have ransacked old account-books, have explained sudden variations of expenses occuring in successive years, have reported the means by which they have been able to earn money, have offered valuable criticisms of their own outlays...
Last, Australasia, her meagre population of 3, 570,000 reads 94 daily papers, which have an aggregate issue per number of 246,009. Rather more than one newspaper to every 40,000 people. one number to every 15 inhabitants...
...active interest taken in base-ball this year is something remarkable and unexpected. The class ball games, which have been rather a failure of late years, were given up this spring, and their place has been supplied in a somewhat novel way. The Consolidated nine was formed with the idea of giving practice to the University and Freshman nines. The success which has attended it has led to the formation of another organization on a similar basis, under the name of the "Reserve" nine. The scheme is now being considered of forming a league, consisting of the Consolidated, the Reserves...
...more than four times greater than those committed in 1886 when there was no coercion. Relatively to the population, England and Scotland are far more criminal countries than Ireland, as are Iowa and Massachusetts. If there is to be any coercion, it should be applied to England and America rather than to Ireland...