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...Such cheering as has been given in the last two games on our own grounds is not such as should come from Yale men, and the sentiment of the whole college rises up against it. A good series of rah-rash at the right time is what all love to hear, but for the two sides to cheer at the same moment as though pitted against one another in a cheering combat seems to us even childish. Let all see to it in the future that there cannot be laid to their door the charge of injuring Yale's reputation...
...that there was just a bare possibility of winning and that good hearty cheers were needed to give our nine spirit and confidence for the hard up-hill game before them. Up to this point the small Dartmouth contingent had struggled nobly with their complicated cheer, and the Yale rash were wholly inadequate to silence it. But after the sophomores met them squarely on their own grounds shouting with great spirit their tortuous Aristophean yell, the Hanoverites by their silence acknowledged their defeat." And again, the cheering and excitement at the park yesterday surpassed anything that has been seen...
...like regularity, all with caps corresponding to the colors of their oars, present a fine sight. Each of the three upper class crews entertain great hopes of victory, and take every opportunity to improve its chines of success. These three crews are so evenly matched that it would be rash to prophesy any order in which they will come in. The crew which, during the next week, makes the greatest improvement...
...batting was heavy. Phillips and LeMoyne, especially, batted Gunderson's delivery with the utmost ease. There was one serious fault in our playing, and that was the base running, which was altogether too rash. Something ought to be done about it. The umpiring was weird...
President Porter, of Yale says that "the rush and hurry of our modern activity needs the infusion of a calmer spirit and of steadier thoughts. Its rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such...