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Heffelfinger made a little hole which Bliss squeezed through for a slight gain. Then Winter essayed to get through Dexter and McClung around Hallowell's end. Both were vain attempts and it was Yale's third down and five yards to gain. Bliss fell back and sent a low punt to Corbett who made the fair catch on Harvard's 36-yard line...
Harvard had a chance to show what her rushing was worth. There was little interference by the forwards and Corbett and Lake went for the line in vain. Trafford kicked, McClung caught it in the middle of the field and Yale invaded Harvard's territory again. They got it up to the 30 yards line, but there Wallis held Waters and the umpire awarded the ball to Harvard...
During the last few minutes Amherst tried in vain both her wedge play and runs around the ends. She could not gain and Harvard again took the aggressive. Trafford made the last touch down. Goal. Score...
...third, that in general the number of college-bred men in America in proportion to the population has been growing less, and that the too high standard has been the cause of this defection; fourth, that at present there is a tendency to idle away a year in a vain belief in the good effect of a dreamy culture; fifth, that lowering the degree emphatically does not lower the standard of education; sixth, that in considering the question, we should consider not merely our own part of college but the general effect on the system of national education...
...Many generations of men "toiled in thought" before the world arrived at that conception of one over-ruling deity which is as natural to us as the air we breath. At the time of the prophets the thinking men of all nations were engaged in an intense and almost vain struggle to grasp the idea of one God. Great minds, like Plato, rose at times to a clear monotheistic conception. But the people of all nations save one were wandering in the outer darkness of polytheism, with no apparent exit. To the Hebrews it was given, and to them alone...