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...shown last week in an examination where there were over two hundred men. Instead of employing proctors to watch the men, he put them on their honor, remaining himself for the sole purpose of answering questions. When this is done in every course the university will have approached much nearer the ideal standard. - [Gazette...
Besides, we are nearer a large city than any other university of the first class, except, perhaps, Columbia, and gain all the advantages, which are great, that can be gained from this. Taking all these points into consideration, Harvard should become more and more recognized not only as the leading college in the country, which position she already occupies, but as the leading graduate university, a position which the recent action of the faculty will go a considerable way toward securing...
...signal was given; the instruments lead off on the "Marseillaise," while from the other end of the field thundered the chorus of "Yankee Doodle." A terrific crash followed, as the opposing ranks met in the struggle; screams of grief, shouts of triumph, filled the air, while the strains of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," proceeding from an injured runner, clashed with the "Babies on Our Block." By this time the whole air resounded with a wondrous pot-pourri, a strange medley of songs, hymns, anthems, curses, utterly regardless of time or place, each player translating into sound the overwhelming passion...
...Haven; Harvard vs. Yale. Nov. 22, at Cambridge; Princeton vs. Yale, Thanksgiving day at Polo Grounds. Princeton tried to push a motion through the convention to restrict the number of rushers in a scrimmage to six of each team, and not to allow the half-backs to come nearer the rusher-line than ten yards, when the ball was to be snapped back. The rules were not materially tampered with, the changing of a few words here and there being the principal alterations. A few unimportant rules were changed concerning the duties, etc., of the referee...
...mayor of Chicago sent notice to the Chicago Base Ball Club yesterday to vacate its present quarters by April 4, as the city could make more money by leasing it to circuses. The club can get no other grounds nearer than two miles from the centre of the city. President Hurlbert of the club is seriously...