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...eleven that represents the con-census of their opinion includes Shevlin and Heffelfinger of Yale, and Mahan and Hardwick of the University. The four experts were unable to agree on the greatest tackles of football history as no player was given more than one vote...
...success or failure of the season will depend very, very largely upon the undergraduate body. If there is a con- tinuation of the atrocious indifference of this spring, failure is practically a certainty. The war is over and the time has come for a complete right about face on the part of every undergraduate in his attitude toward the whole scheme of college affairs. The victories of the past have no bearing on the future unless surrounded by the same influences and the victories of the past were not built on indifference. If every undergraduate would realize that athletics, properly...
Incensed at the resignation after twelve years of service of an assistant professor in the biological department of the Sheffield Scientific School, two hundred undergraduates at Yale have signed a petition urging that he be retained at New Haven. Arguments both pro and con are rife as to whether or not he should be allowed to continue in his present position. It seems not to be certain even that he was compelled to resign, but that much has been taken for granted. The explanation is made that the faculty found him disloyal; the students would reply that...
Though losing his match, Captain G. W. Helm '20 played an excellent brand of tennis. His opponent, S. Hardy, the leader of the club team, starred for the West Siders, finding time between his Church Cup duties to con uer the Crimson player...
...heavy uninteresting type of essay or literature which only the few care to peruse, but it does involve more than the ordinary subject matter such as is found in average short story magazines of the present day. The person who has never taught himself to hunt out, or con over the books of some of the mighty masters of fiction with their galaxy of robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that now they are called classic, then has that individual done his mind and himself a grave injustice...