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Here is a specimen of western base-ball reporting as shown in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Umpire Young seems to be a sublime ignoramus, who adds bull-headed obstinancy to the most prodigious bump of vanity that mortal ever possessed...
...world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat now would stop." This man was a gentleman himself, prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow" as cheating, in spite of your recent editorials, I should say public opinion was very far from sound...
...Here's a specimen of style: "The students have to regret that Professor Law is unable to give no more "prelims," but has recourse only to the weekly Monday quiz." - Cornell...
...after the "rush" between '88 and '89, harmless and good-natured as it was, the Boston press, notably the Herald, was filled with highly sensational accounts of the affair; these statements were at once copied over the country under the title of "Ruffianism at Harvard." As a specimen of the incorrect statements that got afloat, I received yesterday a letter from an anxious relative asking about the condition of the man who was "very seriously injured in the rush." Now Yale and Princeton have received the same ill-treatment from the press, but they have not the same grounds...
Next to this interesting specimen stood a young man who was informing him that "he had just returned from a capital little spread at Smith's you know, awful jolly set of fellows, capital time," etc. This convivial youth, we were told, was a Divinity Hall theolog, which fact, taken in connection with his subsequent behavior, we found a little difficult to believe...