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LAST Saturday the Freshman Eleven played a game of foot-ball at Andover, against a team from Phillips Academy. During the first three-quarters Phillips had somewhat the advantage, though the Freshman at one time almost succeeded in getting a goal, the ball striking against the cross-piece and bounding back. In the second three-quarters '81 in their turn pressed their opponents; but nothing was gained, and the game ended in a draw. The best players were Eton and Nickerson of the Phillips, and Upham, Morse, and Clark of the Freshman Team. A supper was given to the Freshmen...
...Trinity Tablet greatly yearns for Latin services in chapel. Its argument in their favor is somewhat as follows: Our course of study is more like that of Oxford and Cambridge than that of other American colleges. Our new buildings are "after the plan of the old English University system" (whatever the plan of a system may be), therefore we should go further and have Latin prayers, because these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially...
...game between Princeton and Harvard took place on the St. George Cricket Grounds on Friday, November 3. The weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...
...During vacation 1,200 books have been added to the College Library. The Library now numbers somewhat over 37,000 volumes...
...commend to the perusal and profit of the editorial board of the foregoing publication the June number of the Abbott Courant. Though somewhat erratic as to its times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which is its own best recommendation. The bright adaptations of "Mother Goose's Party" are both quaint and original, and the two poems of the number good...