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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first editorial relates, as the writer says, to the well worn subject of giving cups as prizes in athletic competitions. Prizes naturally lose a good deal of their value if distributed a year or even six months after they have been won, and the principles put forward by the Advocate, that the prizes should be bought before the event, so that every competitor will know that after the event the winner will receive his prize, is an excellent remedy for the evil complained...
...Conference meeting, President Eliot described the proper function of a university to be "to teach its students to lead," as opposed to a military school which teaches rather obedience. Let us accept this definition, and try to ascertain the proper attitude of a university graduate toward politics. In the first place, if he is to lead public opinion he must himself have firm-opinions, which should be arrived at by careful, sincere and, if need be, "independent" thinking; and in the second place he should consider it to be rather his duty than his privilege to express in public...
...championship game at the Berkeley oval Sa urday by a score of 94 to nothing. Wesleyan could do nothing whatever with Princeton's heavy rushers, who played a remarkably strong game. Dartmouth defeated Tech at Boston by a score of 42 to 6. At the end of the first half the score was only 12 to 6, but at that time some of Tech's best players were compelled to retire, and Dartmouth had it all her own way the second half. Lehigh beat Columbia at New York...
Harvard won her first championship game Saturday afternoon, defeating the University of Pennsylvania by a score of thirty-five to nothing. The teams were as follows...
...were thus enabled to get around his end frequently; they rushed between him and Stickney also often without being tackled. Tilton got through well, but almost always overran the runner, thus leaving a large hole in the center for him to go through. Cumnock tackled well, especially in the first half, but Hulme got around his end more than once. This was the result, however, of holding which Wallace allowed all the Pennsylvania men freely to indulge in. Harding at quarterback, played very poorly. His passing at times was inaccurate, and until the last part of the game...