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...Yale Courant in an editorial contrasts the tasty uniforms of the Harvard and Princeton teams with the dark and dingy uniforms of the Yale crew and nine...
...altogether in the wrong direction, and should be corrected with all the thoroughness possible. If the Base-Ball Association is to be changed, let it by all means be done with a frankness and belief in good motives and yet with iron-clad by-laws as well. - Yale Courant...
...amusing to see the inter-change of journalistic courtesies between the Harvard and Yale papers of those days, albeit they were less ill-natured and more humorous than those of to-day. The Yale Courant in September, says: "Let the various colleges throughout the country organize their nines and practice this fall. Immediately at the opening of spring, let the colleges throughout the West play for the championship there, and likewise those of the East for the championship here. Then at the time of the great boat-race between Harvard and Yale next summer, let the two champion nines play...
...Advocate terms this a "magnanimous offer of itself," on the part of the Courant, although wholly voluntary and gratuitous as a "guardian angel" to American college base-ball; and the Courant in reply, complains of the "whining, whipped dog" tone of the Advocate. This, of course, did not go unanswered, and so the war continued...
Harvard has received another legacy. Verily to those that have, shall be given. While Harvard luxuriates in constantly increasing legacies, Yale has to trust to the charity of the cold world for clean towels and soap in the gym. - Yale Courant...