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...Soldiers Field in the season ticket section of the north stand at 1.30, and H. A. A. ticket holders are requested to be in their seats promptly at the same time. The cheering leaders will be there, and the songs will be rehearsed before the game. Five thousand copies of the songs will be distributed in the Harvard stand exclusive of the cheering section, all men in which are expected to know the words of the songs from memory. Men in the cheering section should bring flags...
...afternoon the football games were played on Yale Field before fifteen thousand spectators. The regular Yale eleven defeated Bates by the score of 21 to 0. The Yale team played a strong and fast game in the first half, but later weakened and lost chances to score by fumbling and off-side play. Bates narrowly missed a field goal from placement in the second half. The game between the graduates team and the scrub proved the greater attraction. The most prominent players of a dozen years past were in the line up, including Walter Camp, McClung, Chamberlain, Butterworth Heffelfinger, Brown...
...said, an effort was made at Yale to interest a group of Japanese students in devotional Bible study. These men, after consideration, declared they were willing to go into study of religious subjects, but wanted to know whether it was worth while to take up a book written two thousand years ago. The objection raised by these students lingers with other men today. Is Bible study adaptable and helpful to men of the present?--they ask, and sometimes answer...
...library, as planned, will include the text book library now in Sever 15, numbering between three and four thousand volumes, and forming an exhibit of the text books published by the different houses; and the education library proper, or works on education; which, it is planned, shall be bought with the money which has been contributed for the purpose...
Graduates may compete for a prize of one hundred dollars for an original essay in either Latin or Greek, of not less than three thousand words, on any subject chosen by the competitor. To compete a man must be a holder of an academic degree who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year during the period...