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...above satire was written by Mr. Evert Jansen Wendell, '82, for the dinner of the Harvard Club, of Philadelphia, Feb. 19th, 1887, and the dinner of the Harvard Club, of New York, Feb. 21st, 1887. It has never been printed before, and it has been Mr. Wendell's desire that, if published at all, it should first appear in the columns of the CRIMSON, with which he was formerly connected. We take great pleasure in printing the clever little satire, which needs no further explanation...
University says it will never advocate the dropping of Latin and Greek, nor even their continuance as optional studies at our colleges...
...first requisite for success is a habit of self-discipline. Boys, or rather young men, of eighteen, who have never been thrown on their own resources, whose hours have been mapped out for them, whose coming and going has been regulated by authority, whose clothes have been bought, whose books and companions have been chosen, or who have been in the seclusion of careful boarding-schools, are suddenly thrown into freedom, entirely unprotected, can choose everything from companions to studies and at the same time have to meet temptations new in kind and in degree. Having had no command...
...Yale was the best generaled team in the field. In meeting Princeton, they played their heavy runners with only an occasional kick when forced, but when they met the heavy charging of Harvard, they stubbornly fought the ground inch by inch, and never used their best runners until they had driven the ball by a kick well down. In this way they had ever a strong fresh man for a dash up the goal, and an almost infallible kicker to send the ball skimming over...
...Never has the game been so eminently satisfactory to players and spectators, but the final touch was wanting until a meeting of the advisory committee. which constitutes a court of appeals, instead of the annual squabble over technical points, the representatives of the teams unanimously withdrew all protests that had been entered, showing most unmistakably that the rivalry of the season had been a most generous one. A few years of contest between such teams and in such a spirit will so thoroughly convince every one of the value of the sport that nothing short of the most abject folly...