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Confidence contributes in no small degree to success, but it is equally dangerous when too sanguine. Yale men have just as much cause as we have to anticipate victory next Saturday, if we are to judge from their brilliant play with Columbia. The general tone of their editorials show that the characteristic Yale quality of confidence is not shaken to any great extent even after what they call Saturday's surprise. What we have said is only in the way of a warning, and cannot discourage a team which knows its own merits and faults better than the majority...
...general satisfaction. The college had until then considered Princeton her strongest rival. Now interest is centred in the Harvard game. A large delegation will undoubtedly accompany the team, and the hope is expressed that the contest will be of the most friendly nature. Harvard will be pleased to show every courtesy in her power to her great rival...
...large delegation of Princeton men will probably accompany their team to witness the foot-ball game of next Saturday. Harvard, we are, sure will give the visitors from New Jersey a hearty welcome; and her students will show them every courtesy in their power. Whether it meets with victory or defeat, the college will be well pleased to entertain the Princeton men to the best of its ability...
...time, however, has he, I believe, ever considered the explanation suggested by our subject - the alarming growth and extent of the use of wooden toothpicks in this country, requiring for their manufacture, as they do, so large a consumption of native timber. Prof. Sargent's statistics themselves show how forcible a reason this is. Perhaps patriotic considerations and a desire to discountenance the wasteful destruction of our forests, apart from other considerations, may induce the directors at Memorial to introduce quill instead of wooden toothpicks to the tables at the hall...
...membership fees - for its support, it will be made clear that no loss can accrue to any one from the society's failure, and that the only things which can cause its failure are embezzlement or the dwindling away of its members. While these figures serve to show the actual purchasing fund applied by the society, the following will illustrate more clearly the resulting gain...