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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIRS-The pamphlet entitled "Reply to President Eliot's Bay State Club Speech," which has recently been distributed among the students has aroused so much discussion, that perhaps I may be justified in asking you to print what seems to be the popular opinion in regard...
...pass over the contemptible way in which the writer of this pamphlet compares the political opinions of President Eliot to those of a well-known prize-fighter; but I wish to emphasize the meanness of trying to influence the vote of whatever voters there may be among the students here, by a dastardly attack upon a president of whom we all, whatever our political opinions, are justly proud...
...students themselves it looks very much as if college games were properly professional contests-and that would be but another way of saying that they had missed their object. Their only purpose, so far as we can see, is to keep alive a thorough-going spirit of manly enthusiasm among the students to act as it were hand in hand with our other advantages here. If, then, athletics are for the students rather than for the world, it seems but fair that the students should reap the benefits of the games. This certainly they can never do unless...
...boats this fall, a fact which it has never been possible to assert before. Although no definite choice has been made, the men now rowing are the ones having the best chance to be selected for the final eight. Not much can be stated positively until the crew candidates among the men now playing football commence to work; but from the present outlook it would seem as if there were material in the class for an excellent crew...
...whose "Rip Van Winkle" has made his name a household word. No more interesting record of a life upon the stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling in his father's company, they would settle down for a season in a western town, playing in their own extemporized theatre-the the particulars of the creation of his famous...