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...beaten than when one is victorious. It is always better to play with a more powerful rival than it is to play such teams as our nine is compelled to meet. To know that you can conquer, to feel no respect for your opponent, is to give rise to feelings of laxity and carelessness which are positively injurious to a good team. In such contests the weak points of the team have no chance of being found out, and are thus left uncorrected till the most important championship games. During the past two or three weeks Yale and Columbia have...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Your editorial of yesterday contains an error for which the learned author and the reviewer of Lawrie's "Rise and Early Constitution of Universities" are responsible. Your editorial approves of the statement that "until the fourteenth century there was no conscious founding of universities." This is an error; for thirteen of the twenty-six universities that existed in the year 1300 were consciously founded as studia generalia, the mediaeval conception of the modern university. Three of the eleven Italian universities that existed in the beginning of the fourteenth century were conscious foundations: Naples in 1224, Rome...
Match B - 18 yards rise, 5 angles, open...
Match A - 10 Blue Rocks, 18 yards rise, 5 angles, open...
...interesting review of the "Rise and Early Constitutions of Universities" has appeared in the last number of the Nation. According to the view of the author, until the fourteenth century there were no conscious foundings of universities. A university grew, and was not made. We may well doubt if even then all of the universities which are now flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion...