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...athletics foot-ball has absorbed everything. Practice has been steadily maintained. The college was a good deal rejoiced Saturday last at the news of Harvard's victory. We must confess that from all we had learned it seemed as though Princeton would win. Harvard certainly is to be congratulated. The game at Boston on Saturday is now looked forward to with great interest, in as much as it is to be really the decisive game. It is best not to prophesy. We have a good deal of confidence in our team, though we feel that it has been much weakened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE. | 11/22/1882 | See Source »

...review of "Hammersmith; his Harvard Days," from the last number of the Yale Lit., in point of date is quite in accord with the spirit of that venerable periodical. In point of spirit it is exceedingly breezy and most extraordinary, and therefore worth quoting: "Having never seen nor (we confess it) heard of this book before, we picked it up with the reflection: 'The man that could perpetrate a story of five hundred pages about Harvard - or any other college for that matter - ought to be flayed. Conceited undergraduate, no doubt. Confound him!' 'God bless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1882 | See Source »

...will question the wisdom of the concession of this particular point. The evils which result from constant familiarity with the professional aspect of base ball have become so evident of late that it was no surprise to us when the movement against practice with professionals manifested itself, but we confess we are more than surprised at the way in which our rulers have been pleased to ignore the pressing need of some measure of reform. - [Yale Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/18/1882 | See Source »

...thus writes in reference to the proposed change in the curriculum at Columbia: "A few months since, public attention was called to the organization of a school of languages and literature in connection with Columbia College; now the perfected scheme for the ensuing year is open to examination. I confess that I regard it somewhat askance. It is a query whether or no a college gains by enlarging indefinitely its curriculum. The old American college course was and is well suited to our social conditions and needs, and any scheme which should entirely subvert it, I, at least, could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1882 | See Source »

...seemed so fierce in their wrath that I was almost frightened to death. I never saw such mad girls in all my life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said that the expressman had just brought a box of Whitman's candy to one of them; and then they thought they could discover the culprit by asking all the innocent ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR MISS NOUGAT! | 4/22/1882 | See Source »

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