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...race, which could be obtained, if at all, by the usual methods known to collegians, seems the worst possible taste. While every effort is being made at present to illuminate the objectionable professional taint from college athletics, for Pennsylvania to make a move in the opposite direction is a blot on her reputation which she should hasten to wipe out by withdrawing her manifesto...
...question of reform in women's dress was recently debated at Oxford. Another question discussed was, "Resolved, That the barbarity of our so-called 'sports' is a serious blot on our national civilization...
...change of sentiment, as long as a class will endorse disturbances similar to the one of the past week. We hope, however, that in time the New Hampshire college will look at these matters in a different light, and will join those colleges who have endeavored to blot out these affairs from the annals of American college life...
...keeping up old college customs, let her show it by her enthusiasm on the base ball field, at her rowing contests, and in a hearty pecuniary support of her class interests, and not by actions that have been presented annually to the public by the city papers as a blot and disgrace to the fair name of Harvard...
...Chinese students is bright and entertaining. The Fat-men's Corner contains many droll things; one or two, however, we notice that the Transcript would have done well to leave out. We would remind the editors that vulgarity is not wit, and a coarse joke is a serious blot on a college paper...