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...course, to upper-classmen the name is as old as the CRIMSON. It was shown us as a choice relic when we were fresh in the happy autumn of '82. So what we call for is not that the Lampoon cease getting off jokes, but that it concoct something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/14/1885 | See Source »

...system of umpire-play, by which referees have been systematically bulldozed. We do not believe she will deny it. Even professionals will expel from the B. B. league a catcher who deceives the umpire by snapping his fingers to imitate a foul tip. But our brothers in foot-ball concoct a more or less elaborate system, by which the referee is to be continually deceived. The only semblance of a defence that can be offered for such a method is that it is fair, because nothing can be done about it! We do not believe that Princeton wants Yale ruled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE AND PRINCETON. | 12/14/1882 | See Source »

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