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...view of the approaching game between the Juniors and Yale Ninety-eight, one would think that this class team at least should be organized at once so as to give the men a chance to practice in the two weeks left to them. In fact, although it has not been done for several years, it seems well worth while for all of the upper class nines to be got together as early as possible, play some practice games with outside teams, and go into the regular class series with enough preparation to make it a fair test of their abilities...
...crew to do their very best. For these as well as for the material reasons, all those Freshmen who have not done so ought to contribute to the support of the crew, each as much as he can afford; and those who have already subscribed should not think it out of the question to do so again now that their crew is really in need of their further support...
...else the destruction of the posters on the bulletin boards. It has now come to be so that attractive looking posters are torn down, about as fast as they are put up, by those who wish to decorate their rooms. It is thought that anyone who stops to think of the object in advertising the games through these posters will hereafter resist the temptation to confiscate them until the games come off. In other words, the collectors of posters must surely have consideration enough for the teams to let others beside themselves know of the approaching games...
Other modern French critics, such as Lemaitre and Bourget, are novel-writers, poets, playwrights besides, and therefore in danger of being prejudiced; M. Brunetiere is a critic and nothing else, unless, indeed, his desire to propagate pure science and his intimate knowlege of life lead us to think of him as a scientist and a philosoper, both of which titles he disclaims...
...think we can draw some lessons from our defeat. In the first place, our own interpretation of a question may be right, but it is never safe to be so sure it is right as to leave unanswered or treat as irrelevant arguments based upon a different understanding of the subject. If our men had said, "We do not accept the Yale interpretation; still we will answer our opponents on their own ground," the result might have been different...