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...second Glee Club at Yale is said to be in fine condition, and almost the equal of the first. There are twenty men in the club, and, what is remarkable, five first tenors. Yale does not seem to be troubled with that scarcity of first tenors which exists at Harvard, where it is very hard to find four or five good singers of high range, and impossible to find ten, the number in the two Yale Clubs...
...have found that our former prognostications of success have seldom come true, therefore we are resolved this year not to prognosticate. While the team seems to be training steadily enough, its prospects cannot be said to be over bright. The battery will be new and inexperienced, and although there are several of last year's nine remaining, the fact of being on last year's nine does not give them much prestige ; success for the nine is not impossible, but it does not seem probable."-[Princetonian...
...sleighing was never better in and about Cambridge, than at present, but student sleighing parties seem to be scarce...
...always supposed that one graduate of Harvard was as good as another, unless the contrary were proved, and in this case the contrary does not seem to have been proved. We had supposed, moreover, that such race prejudices as these had long ago died away, if indeed they ever existed in a great degree at Harvard, and that a body of Harvard graduates brought together for the express purpose of fostering and renewing the pleasant reminiscences of college life, would not take such a backward step as our representatives seem to have done. We do not wonder that the outside...
...speak of sub-freshman in the sophomore class may doubtless seem to many an awful anomaly, but still even then the phrase must contain an idea, and that idea lies at a greater depth than the mere names themselves. Sub-freshmen don't properly belong in college, but sub-freshmen in the sophomore class! What does it mean? A freshmen proper is expected at the beginning of the year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have...