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...Yale News, standard authority in sporting matters, reports that "the odds on the foot-ball championship have taken quite a change. They now stand 4 to 5 against Yale, even money against Princeton, 8 to 1 against Harvard and Columbia not quoted...
...There are 156 in our class and 1,066 in the whole college here. Our class, '84, is divided in four divisions on 'stand.' They put me in the third division because I was a new student. Their rule is to start a new man down low, and let him work up. We have physics, chemistry, Chaucer, and beginning German; French is my optional. . . . There are five things in which a man must excel here to be highly thought of: Boating, foot-ball, baseball, literary ability, or scholarship. A man that don't count in any one of these...
...author takes a decided stand against the secret society system of our American colleges. His arguments are dispassionate, often cogent, and frequently - fallacious. All the reasons against the system are ably presented and urged; in much, in very much, his criticisms are just and unanswerable; but they frequently go too far. No better statement of all the charges against college secret societies from the standpoint of the student could be made. No more misleading and partial judgment on the question could be given. The many and imperative reasons for the existence of these societies are half unanswered, half ignored...
...nine's playing or wishes to see it equal that of a professional nine; all that the nine itself professes to care about, and certainly all that most of us want it to do, is to maintain a high position among college nines. Any other ambition, except to stand well in comparison with college competitors, is undesirable in any branch of athletics, for it tends sooner or later to turn sports into means of money-making. The death blow to college athletics is much more likely to come from professionalism than from faculty interference." This opinion it seems...
...HAMLIN, Sec.Students who occupy college rooms which stand in the names of their roommates, and who desire to have one-half of the rent and room expenses charged on their own term bills during the current academic year, may sign the room agreements for that purpose on or before Saturday, Oct. 28, but not afterwards. The full year's rent, and all charges for gas, damages, etc., will be collected from those in whose names the rooms stand at the close of business...