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...points to 0. It was expected that our team would score an overwhelming victory, but the western men proved no mean opponents. Owing to the rules of the faculty, play was called very late and darkness set in long before time was called, so that the last half-hour was rather a contest of luck than skill. The ball hugged the Michigan goal throughout nearly all the first three-quarters, our men scoring a touchdown from a brilliant run by Henry, and also forcing their opponents to make a safety. Several very questionable decisions were given by the referee, which...
...Harvard drawing the bye. New York had no difficulty in disposing of New York University, winning three goals before the hour. Then came the final match, New York against Harvard. The drawing had proven unlucky for New York, in that she had to meet three clubs with only a half-hour's intermission, but she showed her mettle, and still played her vigorous game. She now, however, had to deal with a sharper rival than hitherto, and the smart body-checking and passing on the part of both sides showed it to be the game of the day. Three minutes...
Prof. William G. Sumner, of Yale, has adopted the system of half-hour recitations after each of his regular Monday and Thursday lectures. Spencer's "Social Statistics" is the first book taken up, with twenty-five pages to a lesson...
...much lessened. The steward does not seem to have learned yet how much it takes to supply the hall. The other evening at dinner asparagus was on the bill of fare. Any man who came at half-past six was told that the asparagus was all out. This thing occurs almost every night. Something or other always gives out in about a half-hour. There is no need to enumerate other short-comings; every one knows what they are; but this one thing is very clear - there must be some radical change in the hall next year...
...lamentable inefficiency of the so-called Cambridge Fire Department. The college authorities and students will recognize the necessity of all possible precautions and care when they consider the little protection they can expect from such a body of men, who usually arrive at the scene of the disaster a half-hour after it has begun, and who do not know what to do when they have arrived...