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...News mades the following remarks on the recent game with the Beacons: "The nine played a game with the Beacons of Boston on Saturday. The playing all around was very poor and the game characterized by wretched batting on our side. The result, however, was no doubt to a large extent due to the fact that the players were interested so much in the game going on at the other field that they failed to give proper attention to their own work." The score was, Beacon 10, Yale...
...correspondent in another column takes perhaps, too gloomy a view of the recent defeat of our freshman at New Haven. It is true that they did not by any means meet the expectation of the college, but it has come to be a regular practice of the freshman classes to become "rattled" whenever they go to New Haven. '87 was far from being an exception. As '87 had played so well with Brown the disappointment was only the more severe. We hope that the freshmen, by earnest work and a little more confidence in themselves, will prove that they...
President Eliot has a good word to say for the study of history in his recent article in the June Century, discussing the proper elements for a college education. "If any study is liberal and literalizing," he writes, "it is the modern study of history. Philology and polite literature arrogate the title of the humanities;' but what study can so justly claim that honorable title as the study which deals with the actual experience on this earth of social and progressive...
...belonging to it, T. W. Higginson, whose current articles in Harper's are expected to form the basis of a work upon American History Justin Winsor, the librarian of Harvard, who, it is known is engaged in writing a critical history of America; Mr. Arthur Gilman, author of a recently published Short History of the American people; those recent graduates of Harvard whose work is represented in the American Statesman's Series of Volumes, such as Mr. Morse, the editor of the series, Henry Cabot Lodge and Mr. Henry Adams; to these may be added the name of Mr. Eggleston...
There is every reason to expect that the game with Williams this afternoon will be close and exciting. While Williams was beaten by Amherst in a recent game by the score of 9 to 2, the game was in the hands of the former until the 9th inning. At the end of the 8th the score stood Williams 2, Amherst...