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...cannot be doubted however that many absurd notions prevail in this matter. The correspondent of the New York Times from Cambridge very well says: "Of all the errors which have got abroad in regard to our American colleges none is so false or so pernicious as the idea that the majority of the students give too much time to athletics. The truth is just the other way. The athletes in a class of 200 or over can generally be counted on one's fingers. The worst thing about college athletics is that they are shared in by so few that...
...floods still continue throughout the Mississippi valley, and great destitution and misery prevail...
...thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love for P. E. A., or some kindly interest in its students) to come up here this spring and teach us the stroke. It would perhaps not be a very desirable undertaking for the Harvard...
...severe shock. From the strong expressions in the Yale papers that preceded the rush, and as a result of the fiasco Thursday, it is probable that the world has seen the last of the time-honored "banger" rush, and that the sentiment of a majority of Yale students will prevail...
...upon the visitors from Yale and dubbs them "Connecticut roughs." Bad as has been the conduct of Yale in this matter, and deserving of censure as the college may be for upholding and even praising the conduct of its team, we cannot without a protest allow the impression to prevail at Yale that the students of Harvard are reduced to the extremity of indulging in such unseemly vilification as a means of upholding their cause and of defending their rights...