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...Yale men, but in a sport like rowing, where ungentlemanly conduct cannot win as it can in foot-ball, we should choose the more effiicent adversary. However much Yale may strive to make herself disagreeable by her infantile cries of eel grass, such claims, which, even if allowed, only show a want of management and judgment on her part, can only result in making her, as it did last June, the laughing stock of the college and sporting world...
...remarks of the Harvard HERALD concerning our foot-ball team be taken as representative in any degree of the sentiments of the college, they might deserve consideration; but, as it is, they are beneath notice. The expressions of the Boston papers, and of individual Harvard students of high standing, show what the true ideas at that institution are, and we have no ground for complaint. - [Yale News.] Will the News name one Harvard student of "high standing" who has put himself on record as approving Yale's play and disapproving Harvard's universal condemnation of it on the field...
Photographs of some of our prominent athletes will soon be placed in the meeting-room of the gymnasium. The photographs represent the men in attitudes designed to show their muscular development to the best advantage, and the results are highly satisfactory. The photograph of one man of '82 is especially good, and has been much admired...
...other colleges, and seems to meet with much favor. At Amherst and Dartmouth many favor the plan, and think that a league composed of these colleges and Williams would be an improvement so far as they are concerned over the present league in which their "nines" have no show for first or even second place...
...young women.') - 'I have seen letters written by graduates of Harvard College that would disgrace a boy of ten. (Of graduates of the Annex I am not yet prepared to speak.) Whatever the liberally educated man (or woman) should or should not know, no argument is needed to show that he (or she) should be able to write good English.' Professor Hill has that first quality of a good teacher, the power of holding a startled attention. His keen-edged sentences oblige one not only to listen but to believe; for his vigorous style is clearly the natural outgrowth...