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...BEECHER, Secretary.FOR SALE.- Two good seats, centre of house, for Booth and Barret, Friday night. Inquire at Leavitt and Peirce...
...publish to day an editorial from the Yale News on the speech recently made by Mr. Beecher on "fighting the referee." The News declares that the speech has been misunderstood, and that on consideration it has appeared that nothing which would put Yale in a bad light was intended, only a reminder that perhaps the eleven would be compelled to play with a hostile referee, and in that case it would be necessary to fight him. The event proved that these fears were ungrounded, consequently the desperate expedient was not resorted...
...Harvard CRIMSON of Nov. 22, and the Advocate published soon after, gave a great deal of editorial space to commenting upon a so-called extract of Captain Beecher's speech at the alumni meeting in New York. And now the Thursday issue of the CRIMSON once more devotes much space to this subject and to lamenting over the new rupture which that speech has made in our present friendly relations with Harvard. We have been reluctant to enter into a controversy upon this matter for the sake of that good feeling which we thought existed between Harvard and Yale...
...Beecher did not give utterance to the words quoted, nor was the sentiment which he wishes to convey, and which he did convey to those present, such as our contemporary would have its readers believe. Captain Beecher did not train his team "to fight the referee," nor did any one who heard what he said take it that way. The idea which he did give was that he had trained his team to win in spite of all obstacles, even if the referee were one of them. If the Harvard papers have reached that state where they wish to stake...
...professorship of physical culture with an endowment of $50,000, as a memorial of Henry Ward Beecher, is to be established at Amherst...