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...also been the occasion of some unpleasant litigation. He makes the excellent point that the choice of president is of equal concern to citizens of every state, and that it is obviously unreasonable to exclude intelligent voters because of an unavoidable change of residence. A few states allow the "post card vote" for the benefit of non-resident citizens. Either this system should be made universal or the Massachusetts legislature should allow eligible college voters to cast their ballots here. The first remedy is out of the question, but the second could probably be accomplished by means of energetic...
Lawrence Perry, sporting editor of the New York Evening Post, said in commenting on the Cornell game of last Saturday, that Cornell was unquestionably a better team than she showed herself...
Lawrence Perry, sporting editor of the New York Evening Post, in discussing the comparative standing of the Yale, Princeton and University football teams at the present time writes: "Mid-season rating of football elevens doesn't mean very much, but it is a process in which many football followers have been indulging lately. Considering the forthcoming games among Yale, Harvard and Princeton the tendency of those who speak--or write--before they think is to give Princeton at present the edge over Yale and Harvard. As to the Crimson, there is no doubt that Princeton has a cleaer lead--although...
...many ways this attitude is unfortunate. Chess was in vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst. To make chess less than football is to make the immortal dependent on the strictly finite. Chess is the mother of all games...
Smith Hall: William Halsall Cheney, of Peterborough, N. H.; Frederic Cameron Church, Jr., of Lowell; James Renville Clements, of Bay City, Mich.; Robert Alan Lancaster, of Worcester; Rigis Henri Post, Jr., of Bayport...