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...first act is laid in Salem in 1692. The second act comprises a scene on Boston Common, another at Keith's and the final one in the town court house. The plot centres about the two Jacobite exiles and their adventures in the New World during the witch craze. Although there are many modern allusions and local hits, the atmosphere and customs of the 17th century are consistently maintained. The play will be given early in May in Cambridge and Boston only...
...President Eliot's characterization of intercollegiate football, in his annual report, is the utterance of a man who refuses to surrender either his reason or his responsibility to a popular and passing craze. Out of the mouths of the apologists for the game, he condemns it. They would restrain on the day of the great match the brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating through three months of training by "employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs...
...they are for the best interest of the University. They will purify athletics without reducing them to a strictly undergraduate basis. Not only will they purify athletics but they will place restrictions on them which will keep them within bounds. It cannot be denied that there is an athletic craze today, a craze which quite outruns sober thought on the scholarly side of college life. Athletes themselves are too willing to let their college work go in order that they may secure places on 'varsity teams. They themselves cannot make rules which shall check their ardor and the athletic contests...
...contests. Though oratory and argument cannot be practiced on an open field every afternoon before grand stands full of enthusiastic students, they are yet, in their quiet way, quite as important as football; and the sooner people see their importance, the sooner the false impression which follows this athletic craze will be dispelled. At tonight's debate every man who cares to compete will be given a chance, and the best interests of the University demand that the best men be chosen; they cannot be chosen unless all the good debaters in the University are heard...
...unequal securities. - (1) An account of diversity of laws in the states. (2) As evidenced by the present defective banking laws of many states; Knox, Finance Report, 1875, p. 202. (b) The people cannot be trusted to avoid wild-cat schemes, as shown by (1) The free coinage craze. (2) Endowment orders. (c) Repeal would tend to drive coin from circulation: Royall, Andrew Jackson and U. S. Bank, 55-57, 64; McKinley in Boston Herald, Oct. 5, 1892. (d) cost of discount and exchange. (1) Notes would be redeemable only where issued: M. D. Harte in Forum...