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...Yale graduate has published an appeal to students in general and Yale men in particular to stop the growing evil of gambling. He says, "years of toleration have enabled it to fasten itself on students' life with the tenacity of a tumor on the human vitals, so that reform may call for heroic action." To overcome this evil he suggests among other means, "a resolution calling for action at the next annual meeting of the inter-collegiate Y. M. C. A., in order that a crusade against gambling in all colleges may be called...
...entrance of any of the many objectionable features of professionalism into college sports. Their purpose was a laudable one and they would have succeeded had it not been for the unfortunate action of the Yale faculty, in refusing, as they did, to have anything to do with the proposed reform. Yale seems to have been so short-sighted that she could not see that the proposed changes were entirely for the good of college athletics, and that they were absolutely necessary for their continued existence. The moment the impression gets abroad that professionalism, in any of its features, enters into...
...some great idea or traditions is one that has been newly enunciated by a committee of the Alumni Association of Cornell, in New York, and acting on this view of the cause of the decline of Cornell of recent years, the association is to set itself about a reform in the administration of its affairs. It is claimed the number of students has been gradually diminishing, not from the causes usually given - the failure of the labor system, the absence abroad of President White, co-education, attacks of the religious press and the raising of the standard in studies...
...prizes of one hundred dollars each are offered at Cornell for the best essays on "The Democratic Character of Civil Service Reform" and "The Lessons of the French Revolution to the United States...
Fearful case of Hocussing and forcible Abduction of a Young Lady - Dissatisfaction amongst the Lower Orders, and Attempts at Rebellion - Conrad wide awake - The Reform Question - The Corsair and the Little Fairy from the Bottom...