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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1899)
THE BATTALION. 15 played such a splendid game.” Well, surprises happen really often, but they usually have a good cause, and so it was with the game between these tiwo leading universities of our country. When the immense crowd of 36,000 people flocked to Soldiers’ Field to witness the great game, two-thirds of these were Harvard admirers, and the other third were enthusiastic sup porters of old Yale. Both crowds took their sides. But what a difference in their feelings! The Harvard crowd did not seem to know that the eleven ath letes who were to play the game, were also to defend the honor and glory of their loved college. These sat dumb and silent, and only in the latter part of the game, became aware that old Harvard’s glory was in danger, but If an S and I and O and U, With an X at at the end spell su, And an H and a Y and an E spell i, Pray, what is a speller to do? Then if also an S and I and G And H E D spell side, There’s nothing left much for the speller to do But go and commit siouxeyesighed. —Exchange. The sword ordered by act of congress for Admiral Dewey was formally presented to him by President McKinley October 3, in the east front of the capitol at Washington, in the presence of the cabinet, representatives of the army and navy and a throng of spectators. There were brief ad dresses by the secretary of the navy and the president, to which Admiral Dewey, greatly moved by the honor paid him, responded in a few words. The sword, except its steel blade and the body metal of its scabbard, is entirely of gold; it was already too late. Their support had not come in time to induce the Harvard men to play and win. On the other hand, let us look at the sons of old Nassau and their admirers. From the beginning to the very last could the Yale songs and ye’ll be heard above the murmur of the immense crowd. The eleven men who were to uphold old Nassau were intoxicated with a spirit to “do or die,” a spirit which was continuously stimulated by sympathetic shouts from the side line. All they had to do was to look up, and a thousand hands were waved in encouragement to them to uphold the glory of old Yale. “The old Yale spirit did it,” is what Harvard says, but this is no excuse. Where was the spirit of the loyal Harvard men? and among its decorations are the name of the Olympia, the zodiac sign of December, the month of Dewey’s birth, and the arms of the United States and of Ver mont, Dewey’s native state.—Ex. ^ £ A little boy once took a drink. And now he is no more, For what bethought was Ha O Was Ha SO4.—Exchange. £ # “What progress does this girl make in her sewing?” asked the tall visitor stopping before a pupil in the sewing class, who had her thread hopelessly tangled. “About forty knots an hour,” roguishly replied the girl. * £ John:—“Why did you pause in front of the looking glass?” Mabel:—“I just stopped to re flect.”