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Thus far the preliminary games with professional teams show the Harvards to be the best prepared college team. But playing professional teams, in which the collegians have nothing to lose and everything to win, is a very different thing from playing for the championship, when both sides become unnerved by anxiety in regard to the result, and fail to play in the good form they show against the professionals. The coolest team of the three rivals - Harvard, Yale and Princeton - will win the first game of the series they play together. - [N. Y. World...
...certainly been a popular reform in the regulations. Therefore we see no reasons why a like liberty should not be extended to juniors. All the arguments that apply in favor of granting it to seniors must apply equally well in favor of extending it to juniors. Statistics show that the average age of entrance into Harvard is nineteen years; therefore the average age of a Harvard student, upon entering his junior year, is twenty-one years. Surely no one will argue that what is permitted to a mature youth of twenty-two must be denied to a tender stripling...
...Clyal DuVernet Hunt's Irish setter, "Nimrod," won the first prize in the open class, and also special prize for best Irish setter, dog or bitch, in the New York dog show...
...York dog show the prize for Skye terriers was awarded to Geo. Walton's Pepper, Boston...
...would think that in this case, as well as in the case of the seniors, that the necessity of signing a statement to the effect that the rooms were drawn for personal occupation, would deter most men from abusing the privilege of transfer. But actual experience shows that it does not. Men do not scruple to sign a lie when it comes to a matter of rooms. They excuse themselves by saying that everybody else does it. Of course I will not attempt to show to what extremes such reasoning leads...