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...game on Holmes yesterday, was in many ways one of the most interesting that have been played this season. Perhaps it is a good omen for the nine that the game was lost; for about a year ago the 'varsity nine received the first, and, as it proved, the last defeat of a wonderful campaign, from the same opponents. But, omens aside, our energetic nine, by yesterday's game and by the other recent games has shown itself in need of still more practice. Every minute in the field must be made to count, if success against Yale and Princeton...
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...Board, however, resented this innovation as an encroachment upon their prerogatives, and immediately announced publicly that the Facultas had authority in the premises, and that an omen, presumably sent by Custom, a tutelary god of the Harvardians, had been interpreted as signifying the downfall of the city, if such a timehonored statute were repealed. Of the events that followed, there are many and conflicting accounts. Some say, that an amicable compromise was effected; others, among them Crimsonius, a well-known historian of that time, relate that upon the Facultas refusing to accede to the Board's demands, two partisan factions...
...while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers of the conference...
...Yale, was suspended a large floral foot-ball, bearing the word "champion" in white upon its sides; from it hung two smaller foot-balls, painted crimson and orange and black. During the evening the football, with its appendages, fell and broke upon the floor. Was it an ill omen? [Princetonian...