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...number of Yale men have entries in the New Haven kennel show...
...That the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the Western Indians to the glory of Almighty God" was one of the reasons assigned in the royal charter for founding William and Mary college. There is no record, however, to show that an Indian ever received a degree from that famous institution. Although Roanoke College has been attended by Choctaws for thirteen years, Mr. William Harrison McKinney is the first one to complete the course and receive a degree, Bachelor of Arts. He has the distinction of being the first Indian, of full blood, to graduate at a Virginia college...
...word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit." Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending...
...undergraduate crews. While I would not wish in the least to dampen the ardor of our legal fellow-students, it does seem that it would be but just for them to allow the class races to remain distinctively class races. They would perhaps allow a suggestion that to show their earnestness in rowing and their disinterested intentions, they should get a good eight in training and row the University of Pennsylvania for the championship of the world...
...these is below par. Bent on an opposite policy, our crew has always been glad to meet other shells on the river. Many brushes take place with the class crews, and sometimes with the Union and other crews from Boston rowing on the "basin," all of which serve to show the defects of the individual members and of the crew as a whole to the coach sitting in the stern. The better the crew our eight chances to meet in this way, the more practice they derive from the spurt. Then the June regattas of the Union club are useful...