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...HAVEN, Sept. 25.-When President Timothy Dwight heard that Yale had won the boat race over Harvard at New London last June he flung his hat in the air in giving vent to his joy. Probably no one knew better than Yale's enterprising, go-ahead President how much good that victory and the other victories won by the blue-clad athletes were worth to the university. The American youth is essentially either an athlete himself or a lover of athletics, and when he arrives at that stage of life at which he enters college the athletic reputation...
...cheering, were almost wanting, and when a man got his base on three strikes, one could address a friend a couple of yards away and still be heard distinctly. We suppose that this slight noise was an outburst of patriotism which could not be surpressed, but needed to give vent to itself in order to keep the Yale team at its work, as defeat was so imminent...
...proportion to the Boston element in our population. But the New York press would do well to remember that Harvard is not a local affair although the prevailing influence here may come from the shores of Massachusetts Bay. Hence if they have any spite to vent upon this section of the country a much better way of doing it is open to them than the unconsidered one which they have chosen to adopt...
...grown very late, and by twelve o'clock the gallant defenders of the crimson were taking their much needed rest. The freshmen made a good celebration upon very short notice. They behaved themselves well and deserve credit for the enthusiastic but withal guarded manner in which they gave vent to their natural and proper feelings of pride at their success...
...that of the university. Let Harvard men, one and all, prove their worthiness of this confidence by combining to put the law of social contempt and condemnation upon a practice, which has more than once been eagerly caught up by those jealous of the increasing reputation of Harvard to vent their spleen against the university. All would doubtless be indignant were the question made that there is a lower standard of manly honor and truth at Harvard, than at Oxford and Cambridge in England. Yet, unless this practice of "cribbing" or anything at all approaching to it, is promptly crushed...