Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...football men in their plans for reform; and it could be shown that it will be bad for the University either to abolish the game altogether, or to stop it one year and then let it go on. There would be a great loss to the athletic interests which even the Faculty ought to recognize. The opinion is general, and probably not unfounded, that many members of the Faculty favor "giving back" the game in a year or two, thinking that the punishment will ensure thorough-going reforms...
Yale, 14; Wesleyan, 2.Yale opened the baseball season Saturday afternoon, meeting Wesleyan in New Haven in a game of six innings. For three innings the match was even, and marked by good playing; but the cold, raw wind then rendered clean work impossible, and wild throws were frequent. Carter and Greenway did good work. Redington played well at second. Yale's new players did poorly. Wesleyan's team work was inferior. The score was: Yale, 14; Wesleyan...
Nodier's Trilby is as much the fated lover as the Trilby of Du Maurier. And one reads with none the less pleasure the original Trilby, even though the new Trilby of Du Maurier seems to have won the public entire...
...attitude of the Harvard student body is as recently editorially expressed in the CRIMSON - one of "gentlemanly acquiescence," rather than of "approval." Yale feels confident in the ability and discretion of Harvard students and of her Athletic Committee to do what is best for the preservation of the sport, even through the outlook is discouraging. Walter Camp has expressed his belief that curtailment of summer training and a reduction of the time spent in secret practice will materially lessen present evils. He hopes the University Athletic Club will take up the matter, and that the conference they may call will...
...hand, treats the subject in a dispassionate way which is thoroughly admirable. We heartily agree with him that the strong sentiment of the College against the action of the Faculty should find expression; but we can hardly believe that the Faculty have been so unpardonably blind as to mistake even gentlemanly acquiescence for approval. They must know that they have entered upon a course which is condemned by the judgment of the entire undergraduate body and by a very large number graduates. Though they deliberately disregard the opposition which their action excites, they can not be unconscious...