Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that we mean to play foot-ball now we have a chance. There is plenty of good material in college; but if we wish to beat Yale we must have a good captain. Unless the best man is elected to that position there is no especial point in having an eleven. So far no captain has been elected. The members of the eighty-five eleven have so far been unable to give anyone a clear majority. Why the eighty-five eleven should elect the captain for eighty-seven, nobody seems to know. The custom has always been for the eleven...
...happiest period of our lives, we can understand the real significance and the immense value of college societies. Much has been said of late concerning the uselessness and therefore the folly of college societies. As one of the powerful and by no means silent answers to this accusation I point to the Delta Upsilon Quarterly...
...main point of Prof. Ladd's argument refers to the comparative attendance at two colleges in question. The members of '85 at Harvard "'cared to stay away' only two exercises per week out of twelve, - that is, rather more than 12 per cent. of the whole." At Yale, for seven weeks of last term, the absences of '89 men amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard...
...building has awakened great enthusiasm in all branches of sport. All the foot-ball men and many others have begun active training for the boat crews. There are nearly fifty candidates in all. Ellis Ward is already at work as coach and trainer, and appearances at present point to an unusually strong crew for Pennsylvania next year. - Yale News...
...Blue Point Oysters on Shell...