Word: making
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GENTLEMEN-Will you kindly inform a graduate, former editor, lover of foot ball, and present reader of your paper, what ground you have for the assertion you make in your issue of the 26th inst., that "for years it (a dual league) has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties? " Has not this talk been confined to Harvard, and if so is it not worse than useless? Yale has complete control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well...
...members of our team and those wishing to be members. Now we are going to put this reform through, and the reform is going in the long run to benefit Princeton most and cripple Yale most. But don't let us be undignified. and don't let us make an enemy of our old ally when there is nothing to gain there by and much to loose...
...great scarcity of funeral monuments for fifty years after the Persian war, which has never been satisfactorily explained. When they became more frequent again, the monuments exhibit a great variety of subjects. A favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained in the general atmosphere of sadness in the figures. There are very few stones on which...
Athletics, it is to be regretted, have gone to extremes. Just as base ball is at present one of the principal topics of interest in the nation, so athletics fill a most important place in college life. Newspapers, whose sole object is to make money, foster this abnormal interest in athletics by giving glowing accounts of all games. The editors are even ready to have a close game of base ball or of foot ball reported, as they are well aware of the likes and dislikes of their readers. This "abnormal interest" in athletic contests brings about betting, a "sign...
...Hawes, F. H. Gage and M. C. Nichols must make arrangements and play games with men in their sections before Wednesday, December 4, or their games will be forfeited...