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...seems a foregone conclusion it is better to skulk away. Dartmouth has had as good a nine as either Harvard or Princeton since the league was formed, but has been unlucky. When she has added three or four more departments; when she establishes a nursery for cultivating base-ball talent; when she makes use of players until they have justly earned the sobriquet of "veterans;" when her players stoop so low as to practice any means, however unbecoming gentlemen and unfair, to win a game, then may she easily lead those rivals with whom she quite successfully competes at present...
...Yale University Boat Club proposes to produce Gounod's "Faust" this winter with the help of some professional talent from New York...
...this method of work; for, no matter how numerous the courses in that department, in almost every chapter of history there are plenty of questions and controversies that can profitably be discussed. If I knew whether the Art Club was formed for the encouragement and patronage of amateur artistic talent, or for the advancement of archaeological researches, I should know whether to recommend to it this method of work...
...editors for a copy of the Bric-a-Brac, an annual publication of the junior class of Princeton. From cover to cover it is full of clever sketches and useful information on all departments of the college. The cover alone is very artistically treated and shows much of that talent which we have been wont to expect in each number of the Tiger. The first pages are devoted to a general catalogue of faculty and students, followed by lists of membership of the various literary organizations; then athletic records, clubs, commencement exercises and general Princeton news of note. Our account...
...says the Rochester Herald of last Saturday, "that a short time since a ball nine from Cornell University played a game with the Hobart freshman nine, in which the former nine were ingloriously vanquished. It was subsequently discovered by the Cornellites that the Hobart men had engaged some outside talent, and to this the Cornell nine attributed their defeat. Trouble ensued, the Cornellites claiming that they were not honestly beaten, and charging the Hobart nine with unfairness, and the latter asserting that it was not an unusual thing to engage ball-players not connected with the college. The Hobart faculty...