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...their management of our affairs; and if next year a petition were to be got up to employ a regular fencing master, the faculty would certainly not be compelled to grant the petition simply because a year before they had granted one like it for another sport...
...entire afternoon by men taking instruction. Moreover, reduce the price of the sparring lessons from eighty to thirty-five cents apiece, as the petition demands, and you will see the less wealthy men of the college avail themselves in great numbers of the opportunities afforded them to learn the sport at the reduced price...
...Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...
...only congratulate Harvard and the other colleges interested on the latest action of Harvard's faculty. Let us hope too that foot-ball, having successfully passed this crisis, will hereafter be upheld, without interference, for better or for worse by all colleges that have fostered the sport...
...financial report of the University Boat Club, published in our issue of yesterday, was interesting reading to the college at large. No one of our athletic teams is more worthy of generous support from undergraduates than the 'Varsity Crew. In no other sport are the college representatives so hampered by lack of necessary funds. A determined effort is now being made by the officers of the club to pay off the debt which has so long been hanging over it, and this attempt should meet with hearty co-operation on the part of the students. The present management is able...