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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday's Globe contains portraits of the Yale and Princeton elevens; to say that they are wretched is to put it very mildly...
...justice to the Harvard student-reporters, it is only right to say that they are not in any way responsible for the exaggerated headings that appear over their communications. The managements of the papers are alone guilty of the undue prominence and misrepresentation which these headings convey. This trick of newspapers is growing with certain Boston dailies. In fact this method of appealing to the lower classes, to those who hunger for excitement and glory in high colored descriptions, has outgrown respectable limits. Public decency calls for a reform. The prosperity of many papers that live by telling the truth...
Princeton has defeated Yale on Yale's own grounds in a game that must, to say the least, have been intensely exciting. Our congratulations to Princeton are quite in order, and are heartily given. We believe that Princeton deserves her victory, both for her great energy and perseverance and skill in play, and for her extreme courtesy in the prolonged discussions with Yale over the time and the place of the game. So far as we can see, every concession that was made, was made by Princeton; Yale held out to the last with an apparently inexcusable obstinacy. While Princeton...
...fortunate in getting able men to occupy the chapel pulpit, and we believe that in this way the authorities will accomplish much more towards exciting an interest in and respect for all matters of religion among the students, than by any system of compulsion. We think that we can say with no small degree of certainty that, since Sunday attendance at church was made voluntary, quite as many of the students as formerly, perhaps more than formerly, have regularly attended church services...
...attempt, by putting in the field the best players they can get from their editorial boards, and by pressing forward in the contest for the inter-press foot-ball championship with the interest and the energy that have always characterized their labors in other fields. We will say here that, of course, we do not ourselves aspire to first place; for we wish to avoid the merest possibility of having flung at us the withering and soul-depressing charge, conveyed by that one word, "chestnut...