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...what they could do. They now worked for a purpose, and a good shot by Woods drove the ball past H. Hodge and goal one for Harvard was safe. Time, 8 minutes. Hood was the next fortunate man, running the ball down from centre he gave it a swift whirl while Harvard checked Princeton's sticks, and it went through the flags, and the score was tied; time of goal, 17 minutes...
Princeton has found weekly journalism too slow for the present rapid whirl of college life. The Princetonian, well known for same years as a staid weekly periodical resembling the Advocate, but a trifle more newsy, appeared on Friday in a new form very like the CRIMSON. The New Jersey students will hereafter receive their rations of news items, accounts of base-ball games, etc., with the proper leaven of editorial, not at lengthy intervals of a a week each, but every other day. The editors whose enterprise has brought about this change, and the college which is to receive...
...this antagonism arises perhaps from a misunderstanding of the term and its application to the college at large. A simple meaning is that it express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state; in other words, a non-emotional existence which has its good points when compared to the headlong whirl of the nineteenth century, and those that are bad when compared to the athletic standing of rival colleges. If indifference enables men to bear defeat or loss, either in the baseball field, in football, or at the boatrace, with tolerable equanimity, or to hail victories without any outrageous demonstration...
...made the grand tour in a whirl...
Thro' the blind storm-whirl...