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...Yacht Club to sail a Harvard-Yale regatta at Newport in June may be justified by the lateness of Yale's Commencement; but it could not be much more of a concession on the part of the Yale Yacht Club to hold the regatta there in spite of this drawback, than for the Harvard Yacht Club to go around Cape Cod, if it were only to Newport. The regattas which have already been held have all taken place at New London with great inconvenience for Harvard men and ease for the Yale men; and now if the Yale Yacht Club...
...agreement of Pennsylvania to adopt the four years eligibility rules of Harvard and most of the other colleges will give great satisfaction here at Harvard. It has been the one great drawback to all the contests with this institution, and there is now nothing to disturb the very cordial relations existing between the two universities. We are grateful to Pennsylvania for her action...
...always been on such good terms, it is hoped that the students will interest themselves in the affair and do all in their power to make it a success. In the provisional list of the final examinations no examinations were scheduled for June 3, 80 there can be no drawback as far as they are concerned. Dean Briggs has received letters from Dean Ames of the Law School and Dean Richardson of the Medidal School expressing their interest in the affair and their opinion that the members of their schools will gladly join in the parade if the rest...
...course the sparseness of population is a great drawback to public schools, but yet there has never been in this world such a demonstration for education as has been shown by the South in the last twenty-five years. The Norht may have invested $25,000,000 in education in the South, but the Southern people have paid $75,000,000 in the last 25 years for the education of children whose fathers were their slaves...
...Yale eleven began the season with rather a gloomy outlook inasmuch as it was necessary to find two entirely new tackles and three of the four men behind the line. Another drawback was the lack of coaches in the early part of the season when so much depended upon their help for the formation of team work. The eleven has also been handicapped by the loss of scheduled games that have been cancelled at the last minute...