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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale men in college and out will rejoice that the football statements have been published. The testimony of the officials at the Springfield game is the best sort of proof of the falsity of the vicious newspaper attacks on Captain Hinkey. Such conclusive evidence completely exonerates him, as every fair-minded person must admit. While the university has never faltered in its loyalty to Captain Hinkey, the malicious misrepresentations of the press made a formal refutation of the charges against him imperative for the sake of Yale's good name...
...Saturday evening before the members of the Cercle Francais, the performances of the play this week will be grand successes. The rehearsal for the most part went off very satisfactorily. There were one or two defects and occasionally a slight hitch, as is usual with dress rehearsals of any sort, but by tonight these will be remedied and the play will go throughout most smoothly...
...surprising to find how decidedly "fresh" even Harvard students can be occasionally. The sort of performance that occurs more or less regularly at Memorial Hall when visitors are in the gallery, and which was particularly objectionable last night must be stopped. If as is evidently the case, there are many men in the Hall so ill-bred that they do not know enough to treat strangers with civility, the gallery should be closed. Better keep visitors out altogether than let them in to shock them...
...follow. The final selection, however, should be optional with the student, except in those cases where prohibition is necessary to protect from injury. After the student has made his choice, if he devotes an amount of time equivalent to at least four hours a week, he should receive some sort of credit for this work from the highest authorities of the University. Further, if any student passes an examination in a series of tests selected for measuring the special powers of his neuro-muscular mechanism, and his consequent ability to meet the duties and exigencies of life, he should...
...been more or less true that one great reason why games have been played there in the past is that they are more successful financially than when played in smaller towns. Quick to appreciate this, New York people have come to regard a big college game like any other sort of show and to feel that, paying their admission money, they have a right to order when, where and how the show shall proceed...