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...game between Princeton and Harvard took place on the St. George Cricket Grounds on Friday, November 3. The weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...
...Columbia, postponed from Friday, was played on Monday in a severe rainstorm. Both teams were late in arriving. Cushing won the toss, and chose the northern end. It was ten minutes past three before the ball was kicked off. The rain fell in torrents, and the men were soon wet through. In a few moments the ball was rushed down towards Columbia's goal, and before she knew it, Cushing, M. S., had obtained a touch-down. Harrington quickly got two more. The ball was punted out, but no goal was secured. Then the ball was worked close by Columbia...
...other hand, no Englishman would think of sitting down in a room full of smoke and lounging away the whole afternoon, simply because a little drizzling rain happens to be falling. Their climate is not subject to extremes as is ours, but it is proverbially noted for its wet days, and, as a matter of fact, the disagreeable weather of last week may be taken as a fair example of English weather. The success of the Oxford or Cambridge man is not owing so much to his constitution and climate, as to his pertinacity in carrying out whatever he undertakes...
...Warren answered for "The Board of '75." He said that if the editors from '75 were not the parents of the paper, they were its wet-nurses, and they left it now with sincere regret. In replying for "The Advocate Board," Mr. Isham assured us once more of that good-will which it is the wish of both papers may exist always, as it has in the past, between the Advocate and the Magenta...
...President next called upon Mr. Parker C. Chandler of Williams, and at present of the Law School, as an ally of Harvard. Mr. Chandler spoke of his connection with college journalism; he said that although he could not claim to be either father or wet-nurse of the Magenta, he nevertheless considered that he had done something to bring it into existence by pointing out in the Williams Review the field for a new paper at Harvard. He concluded by reading a poem which appeared some time ago in the Advocate, and which described himself as the editor...