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...also done the game much injury, as our correspondent says, by making it unnecessarily rough and out of accord with the traditions and proper spirit of college sports. We know very well with what derisive jeers this opinion will be received at Yale, and how readily the taunt of effeminacy will come to the lips of the self-sufficient News; but, nevertheless, we believe our opinion is sound and reasonable, and is not sufficiently refuted by simple derision...
...false reports of the Chinese officials in this country, which were aggravated by the avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with their money. The boys are homesick for America. Their relatives taunt them with being "foreign devils." One of them writes: "I wish I could return to dear, philanthropic New England, where teachers are better than mothers, where friends are better than sisters, and classmates more agreeable than brothers." - [Cambridge Tribune...
...observe that in some quarters there is a disposition to taunt these young men for being routed by a single man, without resistance, and for demanding his number, instead of fighting. What language of reprobation would have been thought sufficient for their conduct by the same critics if the students had met violence with violence, I cannot conjecture. But I am sure that their manly forbearance and self-possession, under gross provocation, should secure for them the respect and commendation of every citizen who values the peace of the community...
...taunt me with that mocking look...
...stand-point) have exercised this right in declining to row according to the rules of the Rowing Association. In so acting, have they in the slightest gone beyond the bounds of justice? Have they merited to be called " cowards " and " dishonorable " men by the Yale Courant, to have this taunt caught up by the Republican, sealed as true by that paper's reputation for just judgment, and spread throughout the country as an exponent of the character of Harvard Freshmen as true as it is bitter? To this question there can be but one answer when it is remembered that...