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...trust the committee will reconsider their action of last year, taking the opinions of prominent players, and that they will not cling to their hope of making athletics ideal by novel and unheard of rules which can only result in ill-feeling and, what is worse than having no rules at all, covert violation of such existing rules...
...would work. But a theory which looked very plausible while as yet untried proves a failure when put to a practical test. The prospect of a general adoption of the rule does not grow brighter as time goes by, but, on the contrary, appears dimmer than ever. We still cling to our former position, therefore, in requesting the faculty either to rescind the rule or so to modify it as to do away with its objectionable features...
Continuing our general ransacking we come to the Yale papers, the Record and Courant. We freely confess that the latter is far superior to any other Yale publication and ranks with the first college papers. It aims high in many of its verses and does not cling to parodies and slangy productions of the Record cast, which must inevitably reduce a paper to a very low state. We might signal N. L. D. as the most pleasing of the Courant's poets, although to the best of our knowledge he has written but a comparatively short time. There...
Although Mr. Longfellow is credited with the opinion that Oscar Wilde is destined to make his mark as a poet, and although others have declared him to be a young man of grand poetic promise, we still cling to the popular judgment of the man and his work as being essentially the true one thus far. And notwithstanding that we deprecate, as much as any, all unmannerly gibes and epithets as tending to our own harm the most, still we claim that Mr. Wilde is a proper subject for reasonable satire and even ridicule, in all that...
...train from Southborough for Boston. As St. Mark's was ahead at this point, the Freshmen were naturally dissatisfied. St. Mark's courteously consented to go on with the game, but decided among themselves to stop at the end of the next half, whatever the result, being determined to cling to the original agreement. The Freshmen then went in, and made five runs. St. Mark's then withdrew...