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...members of the faculty may have perfectly just intentions, but the enforcement of the athletic regulation of the past year has surely been of the nature of "taxation without representation." The public meeting and the call for expression of student opinion and advice, have merely afforded a shield for the members of the Athletic committee, from the charge of undue severity...
...which certainly approaches more meanly the emblem of Yale than that of Harvard. We all know that the seal should bear three books, argent, upon a field, rules, the two upper volumes being separated from the lower by a chevronel, argent But, alas for our time-honored crimson, the shield upon the present seal flaunts before us a field, azure, upon which the three venerable duodecimo volumes seem strangely ill at ease...
...Canoe Club burgee has arrived and gives general satisfaction. It is triangular in shape, and is made of crimson silk, on which is a gold shield surrounded by a circle. On the shield is painted in ivory black a large...
...prizes given by the Bicycle Club consist of a shield of gold bearing the monograms of the club and enclosed in a rim of gold appropriately inscribed...
...result,' had our freshmen met defeat, we can form no conception. No class now in college ever knew of such a deplorable state of affairs. Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man, and defeat is not popular. Like the Spartan mother, we say, 'return with your shield or on it.' " Yes, Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man. This was proved by the fact that "the smallest man in college" was picked out to bear the blame of her recent defeat at New London and was obliged to give up his studies at that seat...