Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Each of whom beams as he their strong point tells...
...Turning Point" is a fairly good story, though one might wish that a theme that has been so well worn in the fiction of the modern and the ancient world and which our college papers have hitherto avoided as though by a better instinct, would be left to the treatment of master hands only. They might possibly be expected to show this episode in a new light. The melodramatic dens ex machina in the shape of a "golden star" is a bit wearying...
...Dishonesty Bounn" is fairly amusing. It is labored in parts and the whole makes one ask whether the writer might not have told the whole allegory in shorter words. Condensation would have made the point of the tale stronger and more enjoyable...
...attended by a brilliant audience. The freshmen were more than active this year in displaying their class numerals, and resorted to very ingenious schemes to get "'91" before the audience. The first number on the programme was by the banjo club, after which they left the stage. At this point placards bearing the number "'91" were hurled from the upper gallery, which was filled with enthusiastic freshmen. Doves were let loose having suspended from their neck cards also having the class numerals on them. The curtain was dropped just enough to display to the audience a large flag bearing...
...Never before has a foot-ball season presented such markedly different types of one and the same game. Harvard with her running strength and weight played a rushing game in its most aggressive form, while Princeton with her light runners and nimble dodgers showed to what a point the angle game might be carried. Finally Yale with a decidedly mixed team demonstrated the superiority of tieing to no one method by winning the championship by a combination of several. Harvard's style is a product of the last few years, and retains not a vestige of the game as played...