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There are often occasions in which the press is unfair to college students and their customs, but the defamers of the game of foot-ball have a certain license in their attacks which is not allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Among the many trite and wearisome subjects which have been commented upon in your columns with varying success, there is one in regard to which all efforts would seem to have been unavailing. I allude to the moral so often drawn from the "old, old story" of Town and Gown. According to a little squib which perpetually appears in that weekly publication, the University Calendar, the front seats in Appleton Chapel are always (?) reserved on Sunday evenings for students alone until 7.30, at which hour all vacant seats will be filled by the surplus Cambridge people...
...comfort to hold a book before him or something of the sort to keep the light from his face. This evil could be easily reme died if the college authorities would take the matter in hand and put globes about the jets. Another source of annoyance, accompanied often with a cold, are the draughts which come from the windows in the gallery. When these are left open, cold currents of air rush in on the unprotected backs of unfortunate listeners. The third subject needing attention is the noise which regularly proceeds from a knot of small boys who select with...
...matter of that, any college-can not afford to slight such opinions of her graduates, especially as the communication of "Graduate," who evidently has the athletic welfare of his alma mater at heart, was only a mild criticism and suggestion. Such criticisms can do no harm, and very often do much good, and certainly do not call for such a spiteful and childish retort...
...long and arduous practice in these sports. In many cases, the special qualification that makes a man a first class athlete are gifts of nature. Add to this inheritance the prolonged training that tends to cultivate those special powers to the extreme, and we get sometimes a prodigy, but often a failure...