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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Probably Princeton was never more confident of winning the annual Yale game than this year. The team, almost entirely a new and inexperienced one, had trained and practiced faithfully and developed into one of the best ever seen here. Therefore the disappointment over the loss of the game was very keenly felt; but at the same time the entire college express the highest admiration of the way the men played in the latter part of the game, and with practically the same team on the field next year, great hopes are entertained of its success. The election of captain...
...this period, late in life, Moliere was suffering from the disease which eventually caused his death. He was almost broken down by ceaseless mental labor. He was unhappy in his home relations as well, embittered by family quarrels...
Much less is being said nowadays, in favor of having work done by students in college papers substituted for the requirements of English courses. Almost the only approach to such a system is in cases where work meeting the requirements of a college course is also contributed to a student periodical,- which is of course an entirely different thing, though it meets what is in many cases the desired...
...Yale sand." The Princeton game this year was undoubtedly a hard-fought, even, honorbly played contest, which ought to do a great deal for the continuance of this branch of athletics. Undergraduates have never before attended this game in such numbers; in fact, in this respect at least, it almost equalled the Springfield games...
...feature of the game was Thorne's magnificent work. He made several brilliant runs, one of 40 yards, which carried the ball to Princeton's 15 yard line and was soon followed by a touchdown, and another for the same distance, when he dodged through almost the whole Princeton team and scored himself. He also broke through and blocked a kick on Princeton's 12 yard line, and made a touchdown on a double pass, the very next play. In punting as well, Thorne distinguished himself, outplaying his opponent, Baird...