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...wins a victory. And, unless we are very much mistaken, our faculty will find great difficulty in getting President Dwight to own that playing with professionals is degrading to college sport. We believe that college opinion will set its foot upon any spirit of foul play, if such should appear here, and will stamp it out of existence in a far more effectual manner than could be accomplished by the ban of the faculty...
...fifth number of the present volume of the Advocate, which will appear tomorrow, is hardly up to the standard which the last few numbers has set. The editorials, with one exception, are on matters of general college interest, and the position of the Advocate in this number will be heartily endorsed by the members of our University. The proposition that medals should be given to the '88 tug-of-war team is an excellent one. It is but just that men who have won victories so often for their class should receive some memento of their success...
Only two short poems appear in this number. "I Fought a Thousand Battles" is a very smooth and delicate piece of verse, teaching in an easy style a deep moral truth. The only piece of society verse is "A Serenade." Its style is graceful, yet it lacks, as society verse is apt to do, sufficient motive for its production...
...occasion a short time ago to criticize severely the ungentlemanly conduct of certain freshmen in Prof. Lovering's course. We find by a communication which appears in to-day's issue that this loose behavior is not by any means confined to the course in physics, but pervades to a lesser extent several other freshman courses. Some freshmen evidently lack the wit and common sense to understand that because they are not forced to act in a certain manner during lectures, that they are perfectly free to abuse this privilege howsoever they see fit, "from rolling pennies down the aisle...
...capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing dresses, having swum to the ship. Several very pretty dances follow, and then Dawdle manages to dispatch Rooney, who has also come aboard in disguise, to the captain of the coast guard at Crowbay. Rooney has also been entrusted with the terms of ransom proposed...