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Harvard Union debate in Sever 11 at 7.30 this evening. Question : Resolved That representatives in Congress and in state legislatures should vote according to the wishes of their constituents rather than according to their own convictions. Principal disputants; for the affirmative, Messrs. Carrier, '85, and McArthur, '85; for the negative, Messrs. E. A. Hibbard, '84, and Goodale...
...Saturday after Thanks-giving, which will deprive many who expect to go home at that time of the pleasure of witnessing the game. They object to playing at Hartford on the ground that Providence is more nearly equi-distant from Yale and Harvard. This objection to Hartford seems rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters of an hour nearer Boston than New Haven, and that for the last two years Yale has gone all the way to Cambridge." We know that the management of our freshman team is doing all in its power to arrange...
...expected that our team would score an overwhelming victory, but the western men proved no mean opponents. Owing to the rules of the faculty, play was called very late and darkness set in long before time was called, so that the last half-hour was rather a contest of luck than skill. The ball hugged the Michigan goal throughout nearly all the first three-quarters, our men scoring a touchdown from a brilliant run by Henry, and also forcing their opponents to make a safety. Several very questionable decisions were given by the referee, which seemed rather to arise from...
Question: Resolved, "That Representatives in Congress and in state legislatures should vote according to wishes of their constituents rather than according to their own conviction...
...young fellows make a good hearty breakfast. If they did so he thought they were honest, hearty fellows, who were going on in the right way ; but if they did not make a good breakfast, he suspected them of an undue devotion to cigars and ardent spirits. This was rather a rough and ready way of arriving at an estimate, but perhaps he was not far wrong in the result. In this connection I may speak of another college dignitary who used to invite the men to breakfast. He only invited one at a time, and the breakfast invariably consisted...