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...following account of the Yale-Princeton game is taken from the Sportsman, and is interesting as presenting a different version of the reported "slugging match" in which a Princetonian was figured as the aggressor. From what we have heard, the opposite would seem to be the case : "The Yale-Princeton championship game was kicked at the Polo Grounds, Saturday, Nov. 24. About six thousand spectators assembled to witness the game, which was virtually to settle the Inter-University championship. Most of these were college boys, and could be easily distinguished by their badges of blue, black and orange, crimson...
...recognized as a distinctly Harvard song is the "Yale Men Say," but this of course would not do for all occasions. In fact; this song seems to be so little known that the compiler of the new song book gives the words in entirely different shape from the common version. There certainly should be enough talent among Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, to produce a stirring song worthy of the college: In Germany, at many musical festivals, it is the custom for the audience to rise to their feet when the performers on the stage are giving the national bymn...
...Byron's copy of Ossian's Poems are a number of critical and eulogistic notes which seem to have shown Byron's great appreciation of Macpherson's talent as a poet, and this appreciation is more directly shown by the fact that Byron gives a rythmical version of Ossian's address to the sun, beginning thus...
...Dyer will read a metrical version of the "Bacchae" of Euripides on Wednesday evening...
...event of special interest to every one, as he has studied the poem from original sources and is one of the few persons in the world who have made it a study. In the course of the reading, which will be short, he will give a metrical version of the episode of Istar, which has been written by one of his colleagues...