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...bills to the men in training, and though in some cases men have paid as formerly, the last year it has been common to leave these bills unpaid. It is the duty of the committee to make this statement. If public segment and the governments of the organizations sanction the present custom, it undoubtedly will soon become settled...
...understand that during the past week, at the inspiration of the Andover Club at Yale, steps were taken towards the formation of a Yale Club in this school. We were much astonished that any such action should be taken by the students and that it should receive the sanction of any portion of the faculty, especially when it is known that a few administrations since the converting of the school into a feeder for one college and the giving to it a sectarian character, alienated the support of the Phillips family, which support has never since been recovered...
...closing invocation is one which we are thankful to say, our faculty does not sanction; and if every game is as free from the objectionable features as Saturday's was, the career of foot-ball not only is not on the wane but has before it greater opportunities than any it has yet embraced...
...willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability to think connectedly in the presence of physical dangers, to an extent offered by no other form of exercise.' The game that presents such an array of purely scientific and courageous features cannot fail to merit the most universal sanction and approval, and yet newspaper criticism doubtless caused the 'general disposition to consider the game one which is objectionable as a game for students who are gentlemen.' The criticisms passed upon the game as regards its innate roughness' and of its 'tendency to degenerate into brutality and personal combat...
Harvard College treats the students as men; the students, however, act in some instances, like the merest children. The performances of last Monday night can find no sanction in the minds of candid and impartial men. The class of '91, represented by a number of its uncontrolled spirits, has made for itself an unenviable reputation early in its career. If these men believe because men smile at their follies and do not treat them as their fathers did before they came to college, that therefore their actions are meritorious, they are very much mistaken, and have much yet to learn...