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This may be a lucid statement in connection with this subject, but we confess that we do not understand it. Is it a Yale joke, or is it the "Yale method" of argument? We confess we have not given the subject of betting any prominence in considering this subject, and although we may speak "but of the heart," we are not aware that we have spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this...
...list of "Immortals" recently published in our columns. "Out of respect for the ability of Harvard students," says the News, severely, "We prefer to look upon it as an expression of personal liking, rather than the result of any deliberate exercise of judgment." We are most free to confess that we do not altogether approve of the list ourselves; but will the News kindly print us a list of its own which shall be formed, not from "personal liking," but from a "deliberate exercise of judgment," that we here at Harvard may clearly see the error of our ways...
...proposed to make the training in natural science the main part of education, for the great majority of mankind at any rate. And here, I confess, I part company with the friends of physical science with whom up to this point I have been agreeing. The smallness of my acquaintance with the disciples of natural science is ever before my mind, and I am fearful of doing them injustice...
...spite of much harsh treatment, we must confess that we have always had a kind spot in our heart for the Vassar Miss, (we refer to the magazine of that name). The standard of this journal is always of the highest, and its pages are always interesting. It very seldom attempts the well-known heavy article that is so prominent a feature of so many of our ambitious exchanges, and at the same time its light articles are at least readable. All in all, the journal is a credit to its editors, and does much to establish our belief...
...ought, perhaps, to confess that in some respects we are behind the age, and have not followed the example set by several of the leading clubs of this city. We have not amused the public by giving them an account of the squabbles between our steward and the chairman of the House committee, nor enlivened our elections by issuing forged tickets and anonymous attacks on members, now given rise to false reports of duels by the brutal use of woman's names. [Cheers.] But then we are young, and perhaps before we reach the stage when such things are possible...