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...will reconsider their action of last year, taking the opinions of prominent players, and that they will not cling to their hope of making athletics ideal by novel and unheard of rules which can only result in ill-feeling and, what is worse than having no rules at all, covert violation of such existing rules...
...Brevities" published in the weekly Crimson, a close estimate shows 60 to have been taken substantially from the HERALD, while over 20 are covert or open puffs of a Cambridge bookseller...
These facts are enough to show the unfairness of Mr. Reiley's covert attack on Harvard, even supposing all his strictures on Mr. Allen's Latin were correct. But Mr. R. apparently has yet to learn, what every experienced Latin teacher does learn, that it is very unsafe to say that anything is bad Latin. He certainly has detected some serious mistakes, - one, over which he gets specially exultant, in the conjugation of a verb, - one so very bad that a candid reviewer would have recognized it at once, to use Macaulay's expression on a similar occasion...
Within some covert's tangled shade...