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...wish to acknowledge the receipt from G. P. Putnam's Sons of a pamphlet preface of the second edition of the "Nineteenth Century," a romance. It is a very well-balanced statement of facts, and will go far to remove the prejudices that have heretofore existed with regard to the novel...
...Boston Sunday Herald, November 20, speaks of the ill-feeling displayed in our game with Princeton. We wish to say that though the play was rough, there was no action on the part of either Team to warrant this statement. We trust that the cordial relations will continue...
...last Yale Record, in speaking of the Harvard-Yale game says: "It is but fair to say, however, that Yale obtained a touch-down which was disallowed as much to the surprise of the visitors as of our own Team." This statement, so far as Yale's Team is concerned, is doubtless true, but we do not understand where the Record obtained its information about the visitors, who, if we remember rightly, seemed to think the decision of the referee a just...
...would correct the statement in our Sporting Column of October 14, in regard to the 2-mile bicycle record. The telegram announcing Smith's performance was incorrect, as we discovered too late to prevent the error being printed. The best record at the event is still 6 min 27 sec., by W. S. Clark, New York Bicycle Club, at the American Institute Rink, New York...
...article in the Crimson claims, on the other hand, that the grant to the Lacrosse Association was made by the President before any courts had been marked out on the land specified in that grant. This statement merely confirms the technical right of the Lacrosse men; but has no bearing upon the question of discourtesy which, in the judgment of the writer in the Advocate, is one of considerable importance, but which the answer in the Crimson waives, and, by silence upon this point, admits, we infer, that the Lacrosse Association is wrong at least in this respect...