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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down to us in our college regulations making the Christmas recess as short as possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened to come. Our recess is from four to twelve days shorter than with the majority of the institutions for higher education in this country. Those of us who live west of Chicago cannot possibly get home by Christmas day unless we start before college closes, nor can we get back to Cambridge in time for the opening of college exercises, unless we start several days before New Year...
...plan proposed by the executive committee of the tennis association should meet with hearty support from the college. The permanent form which the trophy will take, will not only conduce to a permanently higher grade of play but ought to be a reason for liberal subscriptions. When men are willing to pay without hesitation for the current expenses of their respective teams, we should expect even more willingness in aid of such a perpetual emblem. Then too, no other sport has so many advantages as tennis. The hundreds of enthusiasts in the sport should make the collection...
...matter to assume that only members of the college proper are called upon to attend. Resident graduates as well as law-students are as much concerned. There is no question but that if the whole university feel called upon to attend the services they will assume a far higher significance and prove far more useful than would have been possible under the old restrictions...
...lacking in advantages was made up for by the determination of the players. Seldom have teams been brought together who were so thoroughly determined either to win, or to make a victory cost more than a defeat. Is is true that the feeling on both sides was unfortunately higher than it should have been. But such must always be the case when complications arise similar to those which have been brought so prominently to public attention in connection with the location of the game. The fact that the game was played at Princeton must settle the right and wrong...
...their friendship, science and religion, faith and reason, individuality and society, conservatism and radicalism, poverty and wealth, the past and the future - these must join hands and walk in peace with one another in a city of scholars where not in the base spirit of compromise, but in the higher atmosphere of universal and eternal truth and duty, the essential unity of all good things shall be made manifest and clear. How can we better close than with these words out of the same epistle to the Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning...