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...this connection we are pleased to note the extremely fair position taken by the News, upon the somewhat irregular method of procedure adopted by their freshman foot ball team. In fact, we can hardly conceive of an apology for the conduct of the eleven in failing to play the game agreed upon. The extract which we print in another column sets forth in plain terms the light in which their action was viewed at our sister university before the last action, namely a complete refusal to play the game was taken...
...reply they said the class had voted not to play after Thanksgiving day, and intimated with the most charming nonchalance that they could hardly take our word for it, but would like a certificate that we could not play Wednesday signed by 2 members of our faculty. This was somewhat surprising; but within twenty-four hours the paper was in New Haven. Now how in the world, we could play before Thanksgiving, we should like to have somebody show us. Still Yale claims that they gave us every chance to play, and it was no fault of theirs if there...
...professionalism" was then made against him, hut just the contrary; and further, the thought of objecting to the coach of the crew on the ground of too great expense, seems never to have entered the minds of the Committee a year ago. These facts seem to me to be somewhat inconsistent with the view of the question which the Committee take now, for notice-the only grounds for dismissing Col. Bancroft, given either in the letter of the Graduate Committee or in that of the Athletic Committee, are that (to quote the words of the letter of the Graduate Committee...
...Princeton team far outplayed the Yale eleven in rushing, tackling, and catching during the first half: Yale was somewhat steadier than Princeton during the second half...
...effects of our present system that he is now, and he will then be prepared to express an intelligent opinion concerning it. He is mistaken in supposing that it is only the men who "indulge in expensive sprees, and go to bed regularly at 2 P. M." as he somewhat vulgarly puts it, that wish to do away with compulsory prayers. On the contrary, it is the desire of those who have the interests of the college most at heart, that, for the honor of Harvard, the present system be given up. If the only arguments to be adduced...