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...every student knows that with a good hearty backing the nine will play a far better game than if they merely receive the luck-warm applause of comparatively a few men. Nothing is more inspiring to a team than vigorous cheering from their friends, and nothing will better show our appreciation of the nine's work...
...play, the first goal for Yale was thrown by Pennell. The Harvard freshmen still continued to play rather loosely, and at the end of thirty-five minutes from the first facing, Yale scored a second goal. The ball was soon in play again, and a wonderful improvement began to show itself in the play of the Harvard men. They seemed limbered up and played by far better than they have ever done in practice. Several fine plays were made, and in a few minutes Gardner threw a goal. This considerably encouraged them, and the ball was kept at the Yale...
...same year an anti-senior society paper was started and conducted vigorously and successfully. Recently an elaborate pamphlet appeared, written by an alumnus, formerly a member of each society from year to year, who tried to prove that the system was pernicious, and ought to be abolished. These facts show the state of affairs, and it is not surprising that under such circumstances considerable adverse criticism of Yale's societies should arise...
...failed to be elected worthy of the honor. Some detractors of the system say that the societies tend to keep the non-society men from coming back to commencements and other reunions after graduation. The writer has collected statistics from the secretaries of several leading American colleges, and these show that the number of graduates at the Yale commencements is larger relatively than at any other college. This is attributed to the enthusiasm and strong class feeling, which the societies assisted in forming and keeping alive. The discussion concludes as follows: The advantages of the societies could not probably...
...call for reform in the telegraph office in Cambridge has been made, and we wish to lend the weight of our influence to the move. The service supplied to us by the Western Union, to which company the office belongs, is certainly wretched as the regulations show. The business people and citizens of Cambridge are subject to this inconvenience all the year round, and must feel it considerably. The same is true of the body of students, who, connected with all parts of the country by family ties, are often subjected to great personal inconvenience by the delay in receiving...