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...been a long, hard and often a discouraging lesson, this learning of the game of football. Three times of late years we have thought that we had it mastered, and each time Yale has sent us back to Cambridge to study it some more. But we have stuck to the task with a dogged perseverance, and the 15,000 people who saw Harvard defeat Yale at Hampden Park Saturday, must admit that we have now learned the game thoroughly. Harvard met the strongest team Yale ever put in the field, and fairly outplayed it. It was a hard fought game...
...past-Princeton perhaps least of all. I don't blame them so much. They found they had an unusual number of available graduates players, and they did what they think we have all been doing in persuading them to return for the foot ball season. The men are stuck there for the year, now, though...
...smashing things generally. This necessitated taking the launch to the dry-dock for repairs. In the evening the engineer started with her for the lower basin, but she became unmanageable and went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon began to fill and the engineer was compelled to swim ashore. Efforts were made to get the launch afloat yesterday, but were unsuccessful. A lighter of the Boston Towing Company has been hired, and it is expected that...
...works. He has given up his pottering of years past and has become more finished, light, but yet powerful. Time was when I thought Howells was in the lead, but I think James has beaten him altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent discoveries regarding the Russian school of novelists has set England to noting them very widely...
...Broad St., a truck containing 800,000 dollars got stuck in the snow. It was immediately surrounded by an expectant crowd, whose anticipations were rudely shaken where a strong guard was placed over the treasure...