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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most desirable change has been made in the selling of tickets for the Yale game by permitting one person to buy not more than ten. There has been much dissatisfaction and inconvenience caused by the purchase of large blocks by the first buyers, sometimes for friends but more often for speculation. Persons who have delayed getting tickets have often been compelled to pay large premiums to get any seats at all. It is probably impossible to abolish wholly this evil of speculation, but by the new rule it will be reduced to a minimum. The effort to make the chances...
...many evidences of a deep sympathy both with man and with nature. By far the best thing is "Questions," addressed to a little child, which contains many beautiful sentiments, and is simply and smoothly written. The great fault in the style is a lack of coherency and unity which often renders the meaning very obscure...
...Harvard freshman teams, as we have often said, are 'varsity representatives. In their contests with Yale in particular they represent and are supported by the whole university. By the disgraceful action of the nine Saturday, odium is brought not only upon Ninety-two, but upon all the rest of university as well. Harvard athletics have been in so precarious a state for the past few years that everything file this counts doubly against the whole system. Had the nine been beaten in a squarely played game nothing would have been said, but to be soundly thrashed without an attempt...
...this, however, with the express purpose of delaying the game, no one tried to play. Wood in especial distinguished himself. He made not the slightest attempt to pitch ball. He threw overhand or underhand just as it happened, and the ball was pitched back of the batsman as often as it was in front. The score was perfectly disgraceful. Occasionally Wood would take to tossing the ball easily over the plate. Then the Yale men would bat him all over the field. Too much censure cannot be given to him for the part he played in the game...
...country only at a great cost. Electrical engineering also presents a wide field. Whether a man intends to be a geologist or an engineer he should, during at least two of his summers, devote his time to actual practice. A man who has had no practical work in geology often finds difficulty in applying his knowledge to the problems which may confront him in his work. A geologist should have a fair knowledge of chemistry, but ability to make qualitative analysis is not necessary...