Word: yales
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time approaches for the next game of ball with Yale, conjectures as to the probable result of the game become more frequent. Those who have not watched closely the scores of our Nine and of Yale's - men whose opinion has little value - say openly that our chances of success are few. Others who have been carefully comparing each score as it reaches us are in a much more hopeful frame of mind. We sympathize entirely with the latter, and shall wait until the next game is lost before giving up the hope of winning the series, and the championship...
...Cornell Review this month is "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." All the articles are heavy and uninteresting. Our advice to the Editors is, to copy the Yale Lit. and give more light reading...
...Yale has now become a first-rate school...
...readers this sage advice: "If you must go on a 'tear,' do it when the blue leads the crimson. If she does n't, then do it because she failed to do it. Drown your grief, if you can't celebrate a victory." We sincerely hope that the Yale men will have a chance to "drown their grief." The usual cut is poorly enough drawn, and the joke beneath it is still worse. It may be intelligible to the Yale mind, but we are obliged to confess that the point is too deep...
...number of the Yale Lit. is by far the best of our exchanges this week, and is really excellent. The leader on "Some Books" is well written and contains much sound common-sense. "The Light-Keeper's Story" is an interesting and thrilling tale, and altogether a very creditable production. Want of space prevents us from noticing the other articles, but they are all good. The only criticism we have to make on the Lit. is the insertion of so many baseball scores and so much society news. Why not leave such things as these for the Courant and Record...