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...have also to acknowledge the favors shown by Harvard College to me personally in the matter of a degree, and could expect nothing further. But the fact remains that on the occasion of an important anniversary the good-will shown so other institutions all about us was withheld from Princeton, which I was invited to represent. I acknowledge that Harvard had a right to bestow its honors where it choses, but, surrounded as I am by a body of professors carrying on an original research and printing their results for the public in books and periodicles, I thought it strange...
Princeton has in the last month been the lucky recipient of two donations, made for the purpose of encouraging music in the college and affording to those of the students who possess musical tastes an opportunity of enjoying excellent instruction. A lady, whose name is withheld, presented a considerable sum for the musical education of the college choir. Regular instruction in singing is to be given the choir by Mr. Schnecker, of New York, who is leader of a choir in a prominent New York church. The Princeton students, it is said, sadly mindful of the usual vocal efforts every...
...does not warrant their conclusion, viz: that the game was won fairly. No one will deny that Yale was ahead at the close of the game, and such a letter will throw no new light upon the point. If it were merely a question whether the championship should be withheld from where it rightfully belonged because the game did not consist of "halves of three quarters of an hour each," student opinion would support Yale's claim to the championship. The reason why the students generally, refuse to recognize that Yale won the Thanksgiving game is because they think that...
...carry. A private person, as long as he holds his public position, cannot divest himself of a certain degree of authority which is naturally associated with his position. This, we think, is the unfortunate phase of the present affair, and for this reason if possible the letter should be withheld entirely. No one will deny that the letter signed by the Harvard delegates will carry more weight both to the outside world, and more especially to Yale itself, than a letter signed by any three spectators of the game. On this account we are glad that the Association refused...
Gentleman, name withheld...