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...game with the University of Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day. Yesterday's papers to the contrary, whatever suggestions and recommendations have been made at Harvard and at Pennsylvania have been merely tentative. Several circumstances have contributed to bring about this talk, not the least of which is Pennsylvania's rapid progress in football during the past few years. Last fall she defeated Princeton and in so doing placed herself next to Harvard and Yale. Then came the question of athletic reform. Measures were proposed which would practically have reduced the University of Pennsylvania to the rank of many of the small...
...nine starts on its Easter trip to-day to measure its strength with some of the ablest southern college teams. The University will watch the progress from day to day with true interest and although no delegation accompanies the men, there will be many loyal hearts to rejoice in the victories won or to sympathize in case of defeat. The game yesterday was so satisfactory that we feel that in the coming contests Harvard will do herself proud. In the season which will open at the beginning of the new term the value of this trip will be very apparent...
Born in a family of culture and religious thought, he early determined to enter the ministry. He was precocious in his progress toward scholarly attainments, and was graduated from Harvard at the age of fifteen, with two exceptions, the youngest graduate the college...
...billiard and pool tournament has been in progress at Yale all last week. The finals were played Friday night between H. L. Bloodgood and M. B. L. Burr, both of New York. Bloodgood won by a score...
...contest is in progress in the Connecticut Legislature to stay and divert the state's annual grant of $20,000 to the Yale Scientific School...