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...standing of the various clubs in the foot-ball league is as follows: Princeton has won 3 games, with a total score of 139 points; Yale 2 games, 119 points; Wesleyan 1 game, 25 points; Pennsylvania, 0 games, 23 points...
...year, and evidences the growing influence of the university. The percentage of students from the West and South is much larger than that of previous years. The catalogue as a whole is, perhaps, better than the last; it certainly contains a more satisfactory resume of the work of the various departments of the university. The editors are to be congratulated upon the success of their work, and we hope that the future work of the college will be as satisfactory as it has been during the past year...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - There seems to be a tendency among the proprietors of various tobacco shops of the city and vicinity to display in their windows photographs of our champion athletic organizations. This in itself, seems decidedly out of place, but when these pictures and the cheap frames around them are stamped with certain brands of cigars, and are thus made into advertisements, it seems as though the practice ought to be stopped. The student who feels a just pride in the success of the athletic associations cannot value the various photographs of such associations as highly as he ought...
...ancestors of a later date did not have anything worth being grateful for until the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. Moreover, for a long time after the Revolution, the official observance of Thanksgiving was confined to New England, and the first Thursday of November was generally selected. Various local customs existed throughout the country during this time, but very slow were the Governors, especially in the southern states, to appoint a day by official decree. New York took up the custom in 1817, but often faltered in expressions of thanks in the succeeding years...
...natives was throughout cruel and unjust. They called them bad names and tried every possible means to make them feel that they were as degraded as they were painted. The course of social conservatism was advanced by the very existence of political sin, because the personal ambitions of various leaders were pitted against each other and the result was often not so very bad. The progress of San Francisco was identical with that of the whole state. In 1848 it was a little village of four or five hundred inhabitants. In five years it became a city...