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...fact that long hair per se is subversive of all established rules and authority. It is needless to dive into antiquity to secure proofs in support of this proposition. Society declares it a fact of common experience and observation. The ferment into which this country was thrown by the recent advent of a disciple of the heresy of long hair from a certain effete despotism across the water, alone stands as a sufficient warning against the dangerous doctrine. Harvard's continued success (certainly in a social way) is to be traced to this small but important beginning of hers...
...recent action of the president of the university in regard to college nines playing with professionals is of the greatest importance to the future of college base-ball. Heretofore it has been customary for the nine to practice in the first part of the year with professional nines in Boston, New York, Providence and Worcester. This practice has been a great assistance to the nine, and has been very instrumental in bringing about the good condition of the nine at the beginning of the series for the college championship. If the nine is not allowed to play with professionals...
...recent trial involving the validity of an English patent a senior wrangler, who was employed as an expert witness, was examined by another senior wrangler and cross-examined by a third...
...connection with the recent accounts of the Yale crew in the Boston Herald, the following from a New Haven correspondent of the New York Times may be of interest: "Their new shell has been built by Keast, and fully conforms to Yale's new scheme of making quick strokes to win. It is of cedar, and 72 feet in length. . . . . It is believed that under the new plan the whole race cannot be rowed in good form. It will be suicide to attempt a four-mile pull with a bunched or crooked back or an uneven slide. Here...
...deal in person with the people of foreign tongues has become even a requirement for success in a country so cosmopolitan as the United States, whose financial markets, whose learned professions, and whose general society is influenced and even controlled by an ever-enlarging element of foreigners. A recent writer in the New York Post says in regard to some salutary changes in the curriculum of modern languages at Columbia...