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...years ago the custom was begun of having an annual foot ball dinner. The first object of this dinner was to recognize the unselfish exertions of the men who work all through the fall as candidates for the eleven. A second, and really more important, object was to bring the University as a whole, the graduates and the undergraduates into closer and better understood relations on athletic matters. The dinner in the two years that it has been held has been one of the most stimulating and helpful occasions of the college year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/27/1891 | See Source »

...season has been in many respects like that of last season: the captain has worked with the same tireless energy, the same patience, the same intelligence; the players have trained with the same faithfulness, have sunk, for the good of the college, personal hopes and ambitions with the same unselfish spirit; the college has followed the work with the same interest and supported it with the same loyalty and enthusiasm. But peculiar difficulties faced the captain of the eleven at the beginning of this season; he had to undertake the work of building up a rush-line with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/21/1891 | See Source »

...drawn. It is very likely, we repeat, that this was the way in which Yale proved carefully to Pennsylvania that it would be a better thing all around if the latter college should break the engagement which she had faithfully made with Harvard. Or perhaps Yale was more unselfish and took a kindly interest in Pennsylvania, considerately advising her not to play a team by which Yale did not care to run the risk of being defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/17/1891 | See Source »

...distinctly a statesman, as he interpreted for another and lead public opinion. The moral tone of the prophet was of the highest order and his religious work had a strong tendency to put down the worship of many gods. The spirit of the prophet's work was an unselfish, sympathetic and uncompromising one, truly courageous and hopeful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference. | 3/4/1891 | See Source »

...sincerity of his communication is however, shown by his concluding remarks about the Lampoon, wherein he laments the irregularity of its issue. His solicitude must be of an unselfish and non-personal nature for the president of the Glee Club is not a subscriber to the "Only Successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/14/1891 | See Source »

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