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...season, and the fact that the Harvard eleven has been out of training and without practice for a week. If there was any real desire to play, why did not Yale so express herself on the evening of the day that the game was played, and not wait nearly a week before sending the challenge? It is contrary to precedent as well. Only last year there was a tie, but no one heard of an actual proposal for another game. We can see no possible claim that the Yale freshmen have now for urging the acceptance of their challenge...
...cuts taken last year. This seems quite a useless thing. If the records show that a man has been absent from too many of his recitations, the faculty have the power to demand better attendance of him at the time; and why they do not do this, but wait until many months have passed, is a matter hard to understand. If their aim is to exact a more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what is deemed an objectionable manner. Visting the sins of last year...
...instructors number thirty-two in all, of which nine have been at times connected with Harvard either in the capacity of student or instructor. Copies of the announcement or any information can be obtained from the secretary Mr. Lucien A. Wait, Ithaca, N. Y., to whom applications for instruction must be made...
...attempt were made to equip grounds near the college this fall, we should find the club saddled with expenditures which would render heavy assessments necessary, and it seems far better to wait till spring before making any such attempt when the club will be more firmly established and possessed of more experience. As to the remarks made in your editorial on the inadvisability of shooting over the 800, 900 and 1000 yards ranges, it should be stated that no thoughts of such long-range practice have been entertained by any one in any way connected with the club...
...time to him ; and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Sanders opened for the negative. A secret ballot was then taken on the merits of the debate by the disputants. The debate being then thrown open to the house, a most interesting discussion followed, in which Messrs. Hoar, Frost, McInnis, Wait and others joined. Mr. Sanders closed for the negative and Mr. Sewall for the affirmative. A vote was taken upon the merits of the debate as a whole, which resulted in favor of the negative by 104 to 21. The secretary then announced the results of the secret ballots, which were...