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...subject of a brief article with portraits. "Says Butler" is a good character sketch, well within the range of undergraduate observation and handling. Mr. Lippman's "Reply" to Professor Wendell's "Privileged Classes" shows keen and clever fencing without quite coming to a precise issue with his involuntary antagonist. A readable summary of Professor Coolidge's "The United States as a World Power," and an editorial upon the resignation of President Eliot, are also among the features of this uncommonly good number...

Author: By Bliss Perry., | Title: Illustrated Reviewed by Bliss Perry | 11/19/1908 | See Source »

This afternoon the Mott Haven team is to have its first real opportunity of measuring its strength with a worthy antagonist. Both Pennsylvania and Harvard have been training hard for the games, and although we feel every confidence in the Harvard team, yet we realize that they have got to do their utmost to win. But whether we win or lose, Captain Vincent and the members of the team should receive cordial recognition for their hard and conscientious work. A large crowd will undoubtedly turn out to give the team hearty support, and cheer them on to a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/8/1897 | See Source »

...start Foote won everything but then weakened and Howland gained confidence from his antagonist's poor play. He drove the balls prettily along the side lines, just out of Foote's reach. The two last sets were as signal victories for Howland as the first had been for Foote. Howland is now entitled to hold the championship cup for one year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Championship. | 6/7/1895 | See Source »

...always been a surprise, not only to Yale men but also to the general public, that Harvard, with the largest number of students of any of the competing colleges, and with so many large preparatory schools where the game is played, as feeders, has never beaten her antagonist at this game which she first introduced into American colleges. The explanation of that fact, Harvard men must know better than anyone else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter from a Graduate of Yale. | 11/23/1887 | See Source »

...Yale nine have adopted a kitten as a mascot. It will be a mighty mean antagonist who cries "rats," when the mascot is in the field. - Boston Transcript

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/17/1887 | See Source »

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