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They wear dusters at Yale accord to the 'News...
...preferences, are assigned to the great political parties; and represent certain sections, sitting for this or that constituency, and are supposed to keep themselves well up on the special interests of whatever part of the country they represent. The composition of the parliament is intended to be relatively in accord with the national parliament, with such proportion of conservative liberal and radical representation as to fairly reproduce the actual existing parties...
...will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits, and invest them with the humane Interests which they rightfully claim, and so that men follow them as intelligent men and not as the inferior drudges of society, they have been coming up into the broad light of the university and assuming the character...
...foot-ball. Yale has undoubtedly done much to develope the science of the game, and for what she has done in this way she deserves all praise. But she has also done the game much injury, as our correspondent says, by making it unnecessarily rough and out of accord with the traditions and proper spirit of college sports. We know very well with what derisive jeers this opinion will be received at Yale, and how readily the taunt of effeminacy will come to the lips of the self-sufficient News; but, nevertheless, we believe our opinion is sound and reasonable...
...proceeding would give our opponents a point against us, which they would not fail to use with their accustomed incapability of appreciating gentlemanly action. In the next place, there are other ways of forcing the Yale men to act like gentlemen if they cannot do so of their own accord. As Yale is the only exponent and champion of college "muckerism," and as every college in New England and the vicinity has had occasion to suffer, and has loudly exclaimed against Yale's rowdyism and cowardly insolence, it would be an easy matter to institute united action on the part...