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...There are one hundred and forty-four Republicans and forty-four Democrats. One hundred and forty-four are for Protection and forty-nine for Free Trade. The oldest man in the class is thirty years and ten months, and the youngest is nineteen years. Seventy-five men think Yale's greatest need is money, and seventy-one that the West offers the most advantages to Yale men. Seventy-one men will study law, twenty-four medicine, thirty-six will go into business, twenty will teach, ten will enter the ministry and six the profession of journalism...
...crowd a game. That the outsiders who had paid to see a game should be enraged to lose money and game can be understood, and the experience of the game ought to effect a change of policy regarding rain-checks. That, however, the supporters of either University should think a team bound to throw away chances of success simply that they might see a game we cannot think. The sentiment of outsiders ought not to regulate intercollegiate contests; the sentiment of college men would be against the notion that a captain must jeopardize his chances in order to satisfy...
...would not wish it to be inferred that there has been any great or settled change in the attitude of Harvard students towards visiting athletic teams. We are sure that there is today no university or college where visiting teams are treated with more gentlemanliness than at Harvard; to think otherwise would be to judge Harvard harshly without justice...
...songs are all sung in the gravest manner, the songs of thanksgiving differing from those of sorrow only in the syllables used. In time of battle the squaws think that their chants have some telepathic power and that the braves hear them and become more courageous. They have no songs which are sung for amusement alone. They are all serious ones which are sung at their ceremonies, when divine aid is desired or when they are thankful for something. The Indians never have two verses set to one tune. Each song has some particular significance to them and they could...
...think that the series are too valuable to be allowed to go to ruin in this way. They do good to the men on the teams, they give needed practice to the freshmen, and they develop 'varsity material. It must never be forgotten that under the new rules, the 'varsity will practically have to be made each year from new men in the University and from the players on the class nines. Are not the games important enough to be taken seriously...