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...personal attack of the New York Tribune upon him for his free trade doctrines. "It is not to the advantage of Yale College," the Tribune cried, excitedly, "that shallow and one-sided dogmatism directs its instruction in a science of the highest practical importance." Its editor then proceeds to utter an ominous warning to any other professors or colleges who may make so bold as to uphold free trade heresies...
...Exonian of Phillips Exeter Academy has the following : "Last year, as most of our readers are aware, boating was far below par. The reason for this sudden change from the intense enthusiasm of the previous year to a state of utter indifference was due to the decidedly unsatisfactory - to put it mildly - boats in which the crews would be compelled to row. Now, unless new boats are secured this spring a race next June is not likely to occur. The boat club, we are informed, has not many thousand dollars in its treasury, in fact, is barely free from debt...
...above are the facts upon which the News bases its remarks. We have taken seven years as the basis of comparison, as this was the period chosen by the News itself. The utter want of foundation for the News' article is thus seen to be on a par with the most of its assertions about Harvard. In addition to the testimony of these facts and records, we all know by what questionable means and unfair methods Yale obtains her superiority in the one sport in which she does excel...
...sought unfair advantages, it was not for Harvard to take the law into her own hands and go out of training and leave New London before the day mutually agreed upon arrived. (5.) Whether the motives of Harvard were fear of defeat (which is not believed) or an utter indifference to the Columbia race, caused by the winning of the Yale race, in either case her leaving New London was a breach of duty to the college and a breach of courtesy to Columbia. This position is one outside the disputes between the two crews, and is based...
...main efforts of the instructor who receives them is not to make plain how best to study the subject during the summer, in order to successfully take the examination in the fall, but, on the contrary, he strives almost entirely to convince them of the complete impracticability and utter folly of such an attempt; and we are sorry to say that he generally succeeds in discouraging (the idea would be better expressed by "bulldozing") the majority of men present...