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Yale pretends to fear that she has been deceived in underestimating the strength of the Princeton and Harvard foot-ball teams. The News says: "A letter from a Harvard man says that their team did not exert themselves at all with the Techs. for fear that Yale would get too correct an estimate of their strength. In the newspaper reports of their games they are careful to allow few complimentary remarks to steal in. Yet all this while they are working as they never worked before; they are straining every fibre of strength that the college can boast, and when...
...correspondent of the Boston Traveller lifts up his voice and cries out against the tendency he thinks he observes among the officers of Harvard College "to exert a controlling influence in politics." "It may be questioned," he says, "whether this inclination of those connected with Harvard College to exert a controlling influence in politics may not inure to the benefit of General Butler, and give him many votes. He did not graduate at Harvard, was not born on Beacon street, and does not own a lot in Mt. Auburn; but the story goes that 'he is a brick and made...
...proportion to the expenditure. Some months ago, almost every day it was found necessary to chronicle considerable thefts at the gymnasium, but by due care the evil was finally removed, for all time let it be hoped. The authorities of the boat-house owe it to all interested to exert every effort to detect the criminals and to provide against all possibility of future accidents like the one that has just occurred. It is very unfortunate indeed if the men who devote so much time and work to the welfare and the success of the college on the water, must...
...Wendell ran yesterday on the track, although he did not exert himself. He wore a bandage, as he will be obliged to do hereafter in any race he may run this spring...
...impossible to avert this evil. In spite of the notices posted in the entries scarcely a day passes during which we are not troubled by some suspicious-looking persons assailing us with petitions containing a long account of their afflicted families, and demand aid. We hope the janitors will exert themselves to stop this nuisance...