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...scientists, but that young men attending the college should be given a free choice of courses. He thought that in the last ten years the moral improvement of the students had been great. Twenty-five years ago the average Yale student was a longhaired individual, wrapped in a blanket-shawl. Today he looked like a gentlemen, whether he acted like one or not. This change, he believed, was due to athletics...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It is far from my purpose to attempt in any way to throw a wet blanket upon such an assured success as the Cooperative Association, but I should like to ask if the conduct of the gentlemen was not a little premature, who assembled a few nights ago to discuss "informally" (so it was understood) the prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them...
...decision of the faculty refusing permission to our ball nine to enter the league, has in a measure, thrown a wet blanket over our enthusiasm. We felt that we had the material for a strong nine, and so high ran the enthusiasm, that at a meeting of the college, called at hardly a moment's notice, the money needed to defray the expenses of such a step was quickly subscribed and the measure passed by a very large majority...
...rope! a blanket...
...knocked down by a party of Sophomores carrying a blanket. "Jump, boy, jump far out into the wave!" they shout. The unhappy man looks down at the swaying surface, and mournfully shakes his head; perhaps he has seen that blanket before. Nothing can now save...