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...increase in registration this fall is very marked, each of the three classes being larger than in any previous year. Of the third year class 21 percent did not return, as against 32, 28, 36, 30, 34, and 44 per cent respectively, in six preceding years. The second year men failing to return make only 12 percent of the whole class, as against 25, 7, 23, 28, 24, and 27 per cent in former years...
...next year, playing for the first time with eleven men, Yale won by a score of one goal to nothing. Harvard made two touchdowns, but by previous agreement, these did not count. In 1877 Yale again wanted to play with elevens, but the Association to which Harvard belonged prescribed fifteen players. The game could not therefore be arranged. The next year however, Yale yielded to the demands of the Association, and games were played with fifteens until 1880, when the eleven was finally adopted...
...guide to Harvard University." The editorials are perhaps the best literary contributions, although the Irishman's point of view in "McGinnis at the Yale game," an imitation of Mr. Dooley, is amusing and ends pointedly. The editorial on the distribution of Yale game tickets lacks the overdone tone of previous ones and is timely, but might be improved by the omission of the play on a word in the last sentence. The Yale game, described in scriptural language, is a great addition to the editorial column. The smaller bits, which are few, contain a fair amount of humor...
...regular annual meeting of the Co-operative Society was held in Upper Dane last evening. Professor Cummings, president of the society, presented the annual report, and commented on the state of the Society's business, which exceeded by $8,000 that of the previous year. A constitutional amendment was adopted, providing that in case the society should ever be dissolved, its "inalienable" capital, now amounting to over $25,000, should be turned over, to the Corporation as a fund, the income to be used "for the embellishment of the College precints, or otherwise at their discretion in such manner...
...third and final trial for the Princeton debate will be held at 7.30 tonight in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum. The six men who were retained at the previous trial and who will debate tonight are: R. C. Bruce '02, J. Frank '00, H. B. Kirtland '01, E. Mayer '00, W. Morse '00, and H. A. Yeomans '00. The opening speeches will be twelve minutes in length and the rebuttal five minutes. The sides have been assigned as follows: Affirmative--Mayer, Kirtland and Yeomans; negative--Morse, Frank and Bruce. From these six, three men and an alternate...