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...find, it is a failure; and students or others must go without what they want, unless they apply to one of the two assistants who understand the subject catalogue. As an example: suppose one wished to find a translation of a French play, which appears in English under a new title and with the translator's name in place of the author's. The student does not know this new title or the name of the translator. It is almost certain that his search will be in vain. The subject catalogue should be scheduled minutely enough to enable common people...
...Freshman foot-ball match with Yale last Saturday was a decided success. The game was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, in the presence of about four hundred people. Our team won the toss and kicked with the sun at their backs...
...REPORT of the Freshman foot-ball match between the Yale and Harvard will be found in another column, but the courteous treatment the visitors met with at New Haven deserves especial mention. The Harvard Freshmen were received on the field with hearty applause, which was repeated frequently during the game. After the match they enjoyed the hospitality of the Yale Freshmen, who gave them a supper, and who entertained, during the evening, all the Harvard men who were in the city...
...will meet the approval of all Harvard men. Captain Cushing recently wrote down to Yale, fixing last Tuesday as the latest date to which he was willing to postpone the final decision about the game. A letter was sent in reply, asking him to meet the Yale captain in New Haven on Tuesday. Accordingly Captain Cushing went to Yale, and tried to arrange a match. Yale urged as her excuse for not playing with a fifteen that she had only eleven men in college who knew the rules. As they were the champions this year, they thought they...
YESTERDAY the following telegram was received from New Haven: "Rather than win the game by forfeit, we will meet you half-way and offer the same terms as to Princeton. We will play with thirteen, the other conditions remaining as before." The calm assurance with which the representative of the Y. U. F. B. C. assures us that we shall forfeit the game if we do not play with an eleven is certainly remarkable, when we bear in mind that it was Harvard, not Yale, that sent the challenge, and that fifteen was the number agreed upon...