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...advantage of Yale College," the Tribune cried, excitedly, "that shallow and one-sided dogmatism directs its instruction in a science of the highest practical importance." Its editor then proceeds to utter an ominous warning to any other professors or colleges who may make so bold as to uphold free trade heresies...
...colleagues in their wicked acts and threatens to withdraw from college if the penalty is enforced against the offenders. This action should help them none. It is time that a warning should be given and an example made, even at the sacrifice of an entire class. The public will uphold the college in any repressive measures against this monstrous evil...
...taken as a criterion, Yale cares little for the respect and, consequently, still less for the congratulations of defeated rivals. When a team plays a foul, unfair game deliberately and intentionally, we consider that we have just cause for complaint. But when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only to praise in vainglorious terms the conduct of its players, but also to speak of "defeating Harvard and Princeton at the same time in Harvard's own back-yard," thereby insinuating that the referee worked against Yale in favor...
...Yale will probably show the same spirit next year. She seems now to be unable to appreciate what a spectacle her players made last week, for, if she did appreciate it, she would have already shown it by apologizing through her press. The fact is her papers seem to uphold their team's conduct, which naturally leads one into serious doubts as to what must be the status of society at Yale...
...terms "Yaleism." We are ready to believe that there are gentlemen at Yale, in spite of last Saturday's performance, and that the general sentiment of that college, when the facts and general conduct of their team in the Harvard game are fully and fairly explained, will not uphold such practices as were then indulged in. It cannot be denied that the conduct of Yale's team is responsible for a feeling - and a very intense feeling - of hostility and indignation at Harvard against our sister college, which is perhaps represented by the communication which we publish. For the sake...