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...recent Phi Beta Kappa elections at Harvard, seventeen men were appointed from '87 and eight from '88. Class stand did not alone determine the choice, but athletic and literary proficiency was taken into consideration. According to the New York Tribune, one was drawn as being the best roator, two because of their poetical ability, and a fourth owing to his success as a boxer. - Yale News...
...doubt about the position Harvard should take. Under those circumstances we should withdraw at once, and refuse to play any games whatever with Yale until she should see fit to play with us on fair terms. Princeton undoubtedly, regards the matter in the same light. Let us then stand firm for the main idea of the original proposition and take no half-way measures...
...hand. The following officers were elected: President, R. Faries of the University of Pennsylvania; vice-president, F. B. Stevens of Stevens College; secretary, W. M. Spalding of Princeton; treasurer, L. D. Godshall of Lafayette; executive committee, G. B. Winthrop and William Maurice. It was decided to offer a standing prize of a $50 gold medal for breaking records. As the association only holds in trust the prize known as the Harvard cup, it was decided to have a standard for it to be inscribed suitably for each new winner during the time of tour. Inter-Collegiate records are to stand...
...Lord God of Abraham," from Mendelssohn's "Elijah," was powerfully rendered by Mr. D. M. Babcock of Boston, a member of the class of '77. The Rev. Francis G. Peabody delivered the address, his text being taken from the third chapter of Revelations. We are as men who stand on the threshold of knowledge, but who do not enter. The door lies open, but we have not the courage to advance and explore the unknown regions. The possibilities and chances of life are of two sorts. Those we strive after and desire to possess, and those to which we turn...
...better accomplished than in a mass meeting of the students. If the baseball association should call a meeting to-day, there would undoubtedly be a large attendance, and the sentiment of the college on this important question could be ascertained. If Harvard and Princeton take a decided stand in favor of the new league, Yale will be forced to enter it, or else see her base-ball interests greatly crippled financially and otherwise. Everyone agrees that a new league will have to be formed soon, and there certainly is no time like the present. If Yale saw herself shut...