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...School, O'Neill and Norton in the Law School, and Kedzie, '93 S., who once attended the North Western University. The loss of these men will materially weaken the team, but the advantage to be gained in future by the more nearly absolute purity of athletics must seem to the unbiased mind to clearly overbalance...
...however, some facts in connection with this effort for the "purification of athletics" which are not generally known and which ought to be well understood. Yale cannot justly claim to be the originator of this scheme to reduce college athletics to the minimum of professionalism, as current reports would seem to imply. In point of fact Harvard made a proposition to Yale in May of 1890 which practically covered the ground now taken by Yale. This proposition contained articles of agreement which should regulate all contests in football, baseball, rowing. and track and field athletics. The article on time limitation...
...life of the student is very simple. They all live in plainly furnished rooms, in comparison to which the ordinary rooms in our dormitories would seem palatial. Every man rooms alone. Their meals are as frugal as those of the German people generally. There is a good deal of the naive and unsophisticated about the students; they are fond of simple amusements like walking in the country or attending the theatre. They take life easily and enjoy to the full all the good things in it. but in all they manifest a seriousness of purpose and soundness of mind...
...which I am sure will be of interest to a very large number of students. As many college men know, though only imperfectly, the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophoces was presented in Sanders Theatre in the spring of 1881. More than this very few men know or care, for all seem to be under the impression that it is interesting only to students of the Classics. But any who have read Mr. Henry Norman's little book on that play given in 1881, are well aware that the presentation was not only a demonstration of the work on Greek at Harvard...
...reason for this closer union of the Annex and the University have been clearly stated by Mrs. Agassiz in a letter to the last Nation, and as it is probable that these reasons are not fully understood by undergraduates in general it would not seem unadvisable to state them briefly. They are first, "that the existence of the Annex and its present course of study may be permanently insured to its students;" second, "that the students of the Annex may have freer use of the library and other educational facilities belonging to the University than they now enjoy"; and third...