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...will be no use in expending money on improving that. The athletic association is urgent in its demands for a level running track of a third or quarter of a mile in extent, in place of the present inclined fifth of a mile. The foot-ball men, and the whole college on their behalf, say that it is of vital importance that they should have a good enclosed field in which to play matches. The base-ball men recall the throngs of people who see all their games on Jarvis field, as contrasted with the few hundreds who are occasionally...
...succeeded Dr. Maclean as the college historian. No graduate of Princeton before 1812 is still living. Of the graduates between 1812 and 1820 forty-four are living. The total number of Princeton graduates is 5,439, and of these 3,000 are living. One fifth of the whole number have been clergymen, one-twelfth physicians and only one-eighteenth have entered public life. The mortality has been greatest among the politicians and least among the clergy. A hundred and eighty-nine have become presidents or professors in colleges - no fewer than thirty-two of whom have taken service with their...
...publish the full official statement of Harvard's position in the difficulty with Columbia. We present below the complete statement of Columbia's side of the affair, as contained in the Acta Columbiana. By comparing the two our readers, perhaps, can form a fair and independent judgment on the whole matter. The Acta says...
...understood by the parties to the agreement. The condition as to the state of the tide was an explicit and essential part of the agreement, because, owing to the peculiarities of the Thames river, at no other time is the water equally fair to both contestants over the whole course down stream...
...leaving as it did. It is plain to every one that if the word of the members of the Harvard crew and of the coach as gentlemen is to be taken (and who will question it?), then there certainly was a misunderstanding, or a series of misunderstandings, throughout the whole matter. We will not say that Harvard might not at first have made concessions for the sake of courtesy and harmony; still the conduct of her representatives in insisting upon what they believed to be her rights seems, as the case now stands, technically justifiable. Whatever blame, in short...