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...nine that Princeton has declined to play Harvard in baseball unless Harvard has a strictly undergraduate team. It is understood that Princeton has made this decision in order that she may be consistent. She has proposed to the University of Pennsylvania to play according to the undergraduate rule; if she plays Yale it will, of course, be under the same rule and she cannot consistently play Harvard under any other condition...
Drake '94, substitute pitcher last year, will be ruled out by a stringent undergraduate rule. Trenchard '95 and Bissell '95 are leading candidates for catchers...
...words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible to reach. All that was honest was unnatural and existed only in poetry...
Fortunately however, England is beginning to awake, but can this be said of us Americans? We do not yet recognize the Golden Rule. Many a poor man would willingly work and better himself but is dragged down by social conditions that are rapidly widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Whatever the gains in wealth, hatred between employer and employee is becoming more and more marked. We want less luxury more good will. In politics, too, private interests have taken the place of patriotism. Parties are held together only by gigantic systems of bribery...
...have mentioned earlier in this article, my own preference is for even more severe legislation, and the limiting of eligibility to those who have spent one full year at the university, and who are regularly connected with any department Whatever action is taken, the rule will undoubtedly be modified after a year's experiment, but will be nevertheless of radical benefit...