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...desire to call attention through your columns to the dificiency of the college library in certain important publications. Strange as is may seem for a place considering itself so broad religiously, most of the leading religious magazines and papers, such as "The Christian Union" "The Advance," The "Independent," The Congregationalist," and "Our Day," are not to be found in the library. Besides these several standard authorities on present economic questions, such as "Bradstreets" and "The Iron Age" are wanting...
Your favor of April 25th is at hand. As we understand your position you object to a possible third game after Commencement Day because it is difficult to keep your players together after the close of the academic year. This does not seem to us a sufficient reason for declining our proposal...
...take any exception to the date you have chosen for the New Haven game. But, on the other hand, since it is your selection of so late a date as Tuesday, June 27th, that throws the possible tie game into the vacation, it does not seem to us just for you to make that selection a reason for declining to play off the tie in the manner customary among sportsmen...
...will obstinately, uncompromisingly insist on a rule when she sees that it must inevitably lead to just such an unsettled condition at the end of the season, providing each team wins on its home grounds? Or at least, if she chooses to insist, it is strange that she should seem content to let things stand as they are. Her reasons are not tenable; at least they apply to her no more strongly than to us. They are not true to her previous conditions and this, we think, is conclusively shown in Harvard's last letter...
...several occasions within the last two or three years, we have received communications in regard to the unnatural delight which some seem to have in making old John intoxicated. Apparently there are certain men now in college who find this a source of considerable amusement. If they all would stop and think seriously of the unfair advantage they take of John's weakness and of the gross injustice they do both to him and his family, we believe there would be none so unmanly or inconsiderate as to continue the abominable habit. Old John is old and feeble enough...