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...future prohibition of inter-collegiate base-ball games. Professor Dexter has since been credited with the declaration that next year will witness at Yale, and probably at other leading colleges, the prohibition of all inter-collegiate base-ball contests, as it is the general feeling among the various faculties that the sport is injurious to the proper work of the students. It is said that even Professor Richards, that stalwart friend of Yale sports, declared that the welfare of Yale demands the future abolition of the contests...
...glance of the work already accomplished and at what has been begun will indicate the thought of the Association in regard to the second objection made. Among the first plans of the Eastern Association was the formation of a club for the study of the various phases of household sanitary science. Practical investigation was made of the subject of drainage, plumbing, ventilation, etc., a bibliography was prepared, the results of the studies made were put in circulation, and material aid given to others outside of the society on this important but neglected subject. Careful study has also been made...
...representatives from the various classes for the Anniversay Committee have been chosen, and the result of the election shows that each class has thoroughly considered the matter, before casting its vote. The men selected are energetic, discreet, and popular among their fellows, and they will undoubtedly work hard and zealously to make this occasion - the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard - a memorable one in the annals of the present undergraduates. This is a chance which will come to us but once, so let us seize it and have a glorious celebration in every sense...
...noticeable that the Yale News is at present pursuing the policy - which is the policy of their athletic organization - of using undue persuasion in the shape of lavish compliment, offers of high advancement, donations of old shells and so forth, to make proselytes for their athletic teams among the various schools. It is a very well known fact that the St. Paul's club and other clubs at Yale are deliberately formed for this purpose, and that graduates of the different schools are sent to make converts of the most valuable athletes left in them. Now, although Yale's athletic...
...decided inclination for the study of physics should devote more time to this course than has hitherto been done. The faculty have shown their willingness to foster the growth of a college course which seemed only to lack an incentive to be one of the most popular of the various studies. Now it is time for the students to show their appreciation of the fact, and their earnest desire to meet the faculty in the same spirit of hearty co-operation...