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...forbidding all such performances. It is most unpleasant to be a witness of these constantly occurring contests, particularly so since they are in direct violation of all good order. The directors have shown themselves to be heartily in favor of all reforms, and we look to them then to suppress this most disagreeable and unnecessary practice...
...real truth is that the college has always been, and now permanently is, a gymnasium where the young have to learn the necessities of actual life in its comprehensive scope, and realize their capacities and limitations under conditions the best calculated to suppress undue conceit and awaken or abolish dullness...
...Yale News entirely misunderstands Harvard's position on the subject of playing with professional ball nines. It says editorially : "The discussion of the whole question of college athletics, which the action of Princeton-Harvard has raised, has proved too clearly the fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport...
...French government proposes to suppress all manifestations on the part of pretenders the throne of France...
...London Daily News understands that one of the masters of Eaton has been required by the head master to suppress his book entitled "Notes of a Tour in Ireland," on pain of dismissal from his position...