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...lasting harm and made her appear ridiculous. The position in which we are now placed in regard to Yale is a mortifying one for all Pennsylvania men. There has not been-there is not now, the slightest chance of a Pennsylvania. Yale football game this year. We make this statement advisedly. Yale refused games last year in both football and baseball, certainly the only dignified and independent course for Pennsylvania to pursue was to wait until Yale, forced by public opinion and her own desire for fair play, should issue a challenge, but instead of that the reported statements...
...four college crews in training at one time,- with that of the large American universities, where, as he said, the athletic interests were committed entirely to the members of the teams, while the rest of the students sat on sofas, smoking cigarettes and betting on the results. Such a statement revealed, of course, an almost total ignorance of the athletic life of Harvard, and the effeminate picture presented of the average college man of today was too absurd to be anything but amusing...
...Harvard Civil Service Reform Club holds its annual meeting for the election of officers, at 7.30 tonight, in Upper Mass. For the benefit of those members of the University who are interested in the cause of Civil Service Reform, it may be well to make a brief statement about the club and the objects it wishes to attain. The club was formed two years ago and numbers at present 185 members. Its purpose is to awaken an interest among all Harvard men in the reform of civil service, and to let them know what it really is and what...
...first statement of the needs of the Cambridge post office, reference was made to the rapidly increasing business carried on there. It would have added weight to the appeal then and will now doubtless satisfy those who signed the petition more than ever of the negligence of the Government, if the growth of the business were definitely stated...
...recorded in the number of students enrolled seems to be a heavy weight on the public press and with the usual ingenuity of that body the state of affairs has been generally explained. To these commentators the Alumni Weekly replies in a comprehensive editorial which closes with the statement that "no body about the university is seriously worried over the condition of the institution." If it were known that the standard of the Scientific School had been raised enough to throw out a large number of men on the entrance examinations perhaps people at large would not express such surprise...