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...this system immediately puts a high premium on A's and B's. When a student finds that the change of a single mark would have meant a hundred dollars to him, and when he is in sore straits for the means to his college expenses, there is hardly a limit to the amount of work he feels spurred on to do. If the scholarships never induced men to work themselves beyond reason, well and good. But the fact, patent to every one, is that men do overwork for these scholarships. There is, in our opinion, no small number...
...nine had a good opportunity to win the game from Princeton at one time but did not prove equal to the opportunity. Their erratic work was a disappointment,- a sore disappointment to the men who went to New Haven to support them. The trouble with the nine seems to be, not that they are incapable of playing a strong game, but that they cannot at critical moments keep themselves calm and make use of the abilities they have. The lack of experience is fatal; it has shown itself in all but one of the important games, and, what is most...
...freshman musical clubs in their concert tonight. They fully deserve it. The few concerts which the clubs are allowed to give offer little enough inducement for the display of patience and spirit throughout the long period of practice, and not to have these few well patronized would be a sore disappointment. The concert will be the only one given in Cambridge...
TUNE: "JOHN BROWN'S BODY."Rally round your captain, boys, and make the Eli sore...
...divided against itself to such an extent that it probably cannot survive another season and very soon we must look for another mode of regulating intercollegiate relations. Wesleyan for one reason or another left the association last Saturday and cancelled her game with Yale; Pennsylvania feels so sore over the recent action that she would probably withdraw from the association if the eligibility of her players was questioned to the extent of official protest; the remaining colleges, Yale and Princeton, seem to have no settled relations with each other. Such a state of affairs is very unsatisfactory to every...