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...wail from the Willistonian: "Again the Yale Fresh have gone back on us. It makes twice now that they have backed out of their agreements and failed to play us. Doubtless they had good excuses both times, but they have failed to make them known to us. It is to be hoped that the third time they will stand by what they agree...
...annual wail over the freshman nine has again come to us from Yale. The News says: "As the time approaches for the freshman ball game, it would seem that '89 ought to be putting forth her best efforts to beat Harvard, and win the fence. But we are sorry to find that this is far from the case. It hardly seems possible that the freshmen do not realize the necessity of good, earnest work, thorough training and enthusiasm. The Harvard nine will, without doubt, be one of the strongest their freshmen have ever put in the field. Their battery will...
...applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings of the "Wail of the Whip-poor-Will," and if his lines help out the editor of the Bugle, and are printed, a fond mother weeps in joy over the promise of her son, and the Century registers a new contributor. C. is taking Phil. I. He breaks forth into an exegesis of Hedonism. The readers...
...pleasing diversities of Harvard life is the amount of thought which is bestowed upon the student by his anxious admirers of every class. We hear at times the religious wail soon drowned in the cry of horror arising at the news of a "Harvard rush." And as a fitting accompaniment, we hear the low sigh of the maiden aunt at "those horrid Harvard punches." But when revolving time brings us face to face with questions of Harvard finance, the country is inundated with a mass of information concerning the Harvard pocket-book which is more stupendous than truthful...
...last issue of the Nation contains a new attempt to picture the terrible state of religious feeling at Harvard. Again we hear the antiquated wail that our "study of geology and of the doctrines of evolution" have slowly disintegrated our belief in the "old Bible stories of creation." We are represented as believing that "all religion is a sham, well enough for our ancestors and for old women, but, in the light of modern science, a mere delusion." The pen of the enlightened writer does not pause before that tabooed subject, "compulsory prayers." How pleasing and how refreshing...