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...Columbia nine practice every afternoon in Tammany Hall. - Ex. That explains their so-called championship last year. - Yale Courant...
...what has become of that much agitated national foot-ball team which was to be sent abroad in the interest of American college sports by that fast developing institution? On the whole, perhaps, the quadrangular league sounds well enough as it is. - Yale Courant...
...true and a little untrue in places. The writer shows a trifle of feminine mawkishness in speaking of French realism - perhaps he is thinking of Zola - though we don't believe in displaying the under side of art, as Dumas has said, any more than anybody else does. - Tale Courant...
...other large colleges. As the matter stands now, it seems to have narrowed down to one of two disagreeable alternatives: either that Yale desires to emulate the big boy in the primary class and have a chance to "lick" all the little boys without interference; or, as the Courant fitly says, Yale men "are altogether too prone to imagine other colleges prejudiced against" them. This latter alternative is rather the worse of the two, for the bully often outgrows his youthful failings, but the suspicious man is always shunned and disliked in return for his timidity. Yet we are forced...
Well, what was a very good plan has been spoiled by what the Yale Courant has spoken of as the ever present tendency on the part of the Yale man to distrust every step of his rivals. The proposed league was not a plot to injure Yale but to play base-ball...