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...team, for every man did his work faithfully. When in the first half, the score stood against us, the men did not give up in the slightest, but played a magnificent uphill game. Harvard had an even chance for success, but it lost. It was the greatest game ever seen in New York, and the usual uproar and excitement accompanied...
...appeared in the Century a few months since, and the essays of Dr. Sargent upon physical culture in Scribner later, there is hardly an excuse now for the prejudiced and offensive view of the game which is taken by people in general-people, too, who have rarely, if ever, seen an exhibition, but who form their opinion from heresay. There is danger, no doubt, of minor hurts as there is in everything which enters into the domain of athletics; there is danger, remotely, of serious accident as there is likewise in the most simple forms of gymnastic exercises...
...Princeton team left her at a great disadvantage and the fight became an up-hill one. Every man on the team deserves credit for coolness and pluck to the very end of the match. As to the decision of the referee, it surpasses in unfairness anything we have ever seen on the foot-ball field. He over stepped the limits of his office when he disqualified a player for unintentional foul tackling.- Princetonian...
...spirit of hazing has died out here to a very great extent, apparently, and whether due to the gentleness of '90 or the severity of the proctors there has been less this year than ever before. The good effects are plainly visible in the increased number of freshmen seen on the track and ball field, and it will without doubt have a most beneficial effect on general athletics...
...students and faculty of St. John College in Minnesota are engaged in a hunt after a meteor which was seen to fall at no great distance from the college...