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...have since been reassured by Captain Waters that Newton did nothing out of the way and that if he in any way hurt Brewer it was entirely unintentional on his part. We are very glad to free Newton from the charge of ungentlemanly playing because we can now assert with the greatest confidence and with unalloyed pleasure the Pennsylvania's whole attitude was as manly and sportsmanlike as could have been desired. We have learned of two or three little things that happened during the game which strengthens us in our good opinion of her team. After Emmons was hurt...
...goals certainly told largely in her favor, but it was purely the result of luck. Harvard cannot and will not lay either Yale's victory or Harvard's defeat to the toss of a coin, no matter what its significance may seem to be. Her sportsmanlike spirit will assert itself here as elsewhere and give to Yale the credit of having won fairly and squarely and purely on her merits...
American society lacks individuality. There is an artificiality in it all that deprives it of life and freedom. In the various grades of society, aristocracy and democracy are prone to assert themselves to excess. A man who emphasizes his aristocracy shows that he is ignorant of the true position of aristocracy; the man who boasts of his democracy does the greatest harm to the cause of democracy...
...making a general survey of the field it is safe to assert that Yale's strength this year will lie in the hammer throw, the pole vault, the high jump, the mile walk, and the half-mile run, with a sure chance of one place in the bicycle race and every...
...received no exclusive jurisdiction from Russia - (a) Russia did not formally assert or exercise such rights over the whole of Behring Sea: Stanton, 30-31 - (b) Russia's claims not recognized by - (1) U. S.: Stanton, 34, -(2) England: U. S. Doc., Behring Sea, 1892, pp. 17-18, - (3) Abrograted by treaties of 1824-25: Stanton, 36-37 - (c) Behring Sea part of the Pacific Ocean; Stanton; 35-39. - (D0 Russia's alleged "rights by nature" not transferable: Stanton...