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...Yale meet. As nearly as is humanly possible, the men ran true to form, and in several cases even exceeded expectations. The Yale track team won on its merits; it demonstrated genuine superiority in nearly every department of the game. Every event was a desperate struggle characterized by the extremest valor on both sides. Even to be vanquished in such a battle is an honor. We cannot suppress our admiration for the spirit which has made possible at Yale the construction of such a wonderful athletic machine upon the ruins of last year's annihilating defeats...
...political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious an avocation that many authors were reduced to the extremest straits and to absolute want...