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...fast ball games in which Harvard and Columbia took part were contested conrteously; there is no reason why an athlete should not be a gentleman." He adds that one of Yale's famous captains left Yale long ago and is now "Professor of ornamental profanity in some western fresh-water college; but his influence remains after...
Representatives of Evanston and the University of Michigan have recently formed a Western Base Ball Association, with the intention of playing a series of games early in the season, so that the winner may play for the college championship of the United States with the Eastern college nine which shall head the Eastern list...
...College Transcript comes to us from Ohio. It is rather more readable than most of our western exchanges. The article on the return of the Chinese students is bright and entertaining. The Fat-men's Corner contains many droll things; one or two, however, we notice that the Transcript would have done well to leave out. We would remind the editors that vulgarity is not wit, and a coarse joke is a serious blot on a college paper...
...Glee Club contemplates giving concerts at the following places, if halls can be procured, during its Western trip in the Christmas vacation : Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany, and probably New York...
CAMBRIDGE is no more than twelve miles from Concord, and yet there are students in Harvard College to whom New England thought is almost utterly foreign. The University is, of course, more or less cosmopolitan, and the Westerner tramples consecrated soil for perhaps a year and a half before he takes cognizance of the original thinkers whom it has nourished. I confess to a feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack...