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...predict the outcome of this evening's game is practically impossible, as the Dartmouth team is more or less of an unknown quantity. It was defeated by Yale, 7 to 2, in its first game, but in the following week came back and defeated Princeton, 6 to 3. Yale barely defeated Princeton last week in a very close game, by the score of 1 to 0. Two days after winning from Princeton, Dartmouth was beaten by Columbia in a slow game, 3 to 2. As the University team defeated Columbia, the advantage would seem to lie with the home team...
...have been so fortunate as to discover nearly a hundred tablets, supposed to be a portion of the archives of King Ahab, written in ink and not engraved on the clay when it was soft. They are in Hebrew characters. One is reported to be a letter from an unknown King of Assyria which, if in Hebrew, is undoubtedly a translation. This discovery will probably be of great importance to students of archaeology...
...first time. The object of this committee is to see that the newcomer has opportunities to meet Harvard men in Chicago and to alleviate as much as possible the sensation of strangeness which is felt by a young graduate coming in search of a position, to an unknown city for the first time. The club wishes that the undergraduates should know of the existence of this committee, so if later they decide to go to Chicago they may be sure of a welcome from any member of the following committee: A. Boal '00, 150 Michigan avenue; A. G. cable...
...their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders to the effect that first scholars in college drifted into the obscurity of the ill-paid school-teacher or the unknown country parson. The fallacy of this belief and the danger of this prejudice is pointed out in two of the leading articles in this December issue. And new ideals of fore-college work are set forth in two other of the leading articles...
...discouraging, and yet encouraging, feature in both these critical instances of misplay is that in both cases the mistake was of a very elementary nature; discouraging, because fumbling and disobedience to the rules should be unknown in the work of a finished team; encouraging, because such faults are from their simplicity easy for the coaches to attack. The keen football heads that will direct the work of next year's team cannot fail to profit by this experience...