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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton has decided to exclude graduate students from the University debating teams, thereby giving undergraduates a better chance of making the teams than if they had to compete against older men. In this move, Princeton has acted without regard to Harvard, where graduates are still eligible, though the plan of excluding them has been spoken of. It is hoped that Harvard. Yale, and Princeton can come to an agreement on the subject at the conference later in the year...
...reason for the complete reversal of policy with regard to English Composition was, we believe, an economic one. The new policy continues, apparently, from force of custom, though it has its advocates. They argue, among other things, that the average man taking a Composition course regards writing correct English as a stunt, like tight-rope dancing, to be performed only on special occasions in the class-room. This argument has some truth in it, but it is fair to suppose that a man will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment...
...exultant pride. Its struggle from impotence against Colgate to excellence against Princeton has never been surpassed by any Yale team. Its playing against perhaps the best football machine that ever represented Harvard brought more honor to Yale than many an actual victory over inferior Harvard teams. Its fight Saturday, though of course "unsatisfactory," was a magnificent embodiment of something implied in the word Yale. In the memory of that fight, engraved upon the minds of even the Harvard spectators, the bitterness of defeat vanishes...
...games for the past eight years the Battery team, though it has been tied three times has not been defeated. It is confident of another victory this year, but does not anticipate an easy time...
...Yale; it is little consolation to say that hers was a game fight against a better team. Harvard, however, appreciates the fairness of her play, her fierce, though vain, attempts to square old scores, and above all the fighting spirit with which the team and its supporters accepted defeat...