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I. .iYeJP ffaJ'ell Oct. 2 J 7'>. ;io . .t. er's Civil t railway THE LAST NIGHT AT HOME. fresh to enjoy the felicity of eeing Yale wipe nche~ er; Round the room the lamplight floating, out all her pa t defeat by a gloriou victory. Folds within its soft embrace vV e had prepared our el\ e by da , of ev re Many dear familiar objects, ir tine in training to bout Yale lu tily a the crew ( oke's Many a dear familiar face; ! pa sed us. We arrived late: barely in time to And I hear the children's voices, wa held Laughing out in gay delight; ascertain the state of the pool . \Ve di covered he Fre.h­ All around is love and comfort, upon inquiry that Yale old in the field. udjourned Yet I'm very sad to-night. This of course we attributed to gro ignorance For the hours, they fly too quickly, vo Kluit, And the night will soon be gone; on the part of the sporting fraternity. Well, m Janm I must leave upon the morrow, the morning of the 24th broke bright and mil- · Ere the shadows leave the lawn. t.; Tho. ing, gentle zephyr floated balmil ' through the e sr. And the strength of bitter feeling, air etc. (for further account of the weather ee 1 the ci­ More than words can ever tell, trk. • 11 Spends itself in wistful gazing N. Y. paper, July 25th.) We took up our vor to be On the forms I love so well ; po ition in a large field at the end of the cour e c day and Love still dearer now than ever, (for which privilege we paid a half dollar). For the knowledge we must part, cd a ·hort (Blessings brighten aa they're flying,) Scarcely had we arrived when a pi tol hot, far religious Will be felt, while beats a heart. up the river, announced the tart of the Fre h­ they may man crew . After a few moment · we caught , remark., Oh, thou Future! dim and gloomy, With thy whisperings of fate, ight of four crew steering wildly down the \' evening Heard by us thy airy voices . Gilman, Ever syllable "too bte." tream. \Ve watched them long enough to d ad re: see that the cientific Fre hmen had experi­ k P. M. There are words that are half spoken, There are tender eyes that fill, enced another bit of Yale luck ! and then bu i­ 'hefficld Good-night kisses,-all are vanished, And the night is dark and still. ne called us to the rear of the crowd. The crew pa ed over the line and the F re hman Oh! how many a noble impulse Throb it way into the light, race of 1872 wa won by \Ve leyan ! One Gathers half its power and purpose fair admirer of Middletown' talwart on be­ From the silence of the night. came o excited at this une.·pected ight, that tcr And I felt high a pirations, she fell uddenly down a teep bank, and at the ! That will last where'er I roam, Kindled 'mid the mournful silence bottom a urned the graceful position of an Of my last sad night at home. E. R. J. inverted umbrella. Now come the race of the day. The ec­ THE \VATER-LOO OF JULY 24TH. ond gun announce the ·tart of the U niver ity YALE men mu t be ick and tired of reading crew·. The ix boat come int ight. They article after article on thi melancholy but pro­ are ide b ide, and the pace i · fearful. Pre·­ lific ubject. 'till bear with u once more. ently one ix i ·een picking it way through In order to gain victory in the future, the cau e· the re t and-take the lead ! ,. ow for a field­ f our pa t defeat mu t be eriou 1 consid­ gla . 'Ve carcely dare to 1 ok. A ingle ered. We came to pringfield late, o a to be glance a ure u . The handkcrchiefr are blue, 26 THE YALE RECORD. and we shout Yale wins / till our throat cracks. FOOT-BALL. An uncouth looking Amherst tudent beside us Mr. Editor :-The way in which the foot mildly suggest that the handkerchiefs look ball sea on of last year clo ed, led some of u purple to him. We turn upon him with a to think that the commencement of thi fall glance of contempt. A second look through term would witnes great enthusiasm in thi the gla changes our opinion, however. For branch of college sport . But such eem not lo ! the country lad is right ; Amherst leads, to be the ca e. Hardly a word ha been poken with Harvard close upon her. But where, oh ! upon the subject. No one apparently has where is Yale? Far, far behind-last boat of thought of it. all! \Vhat en ued after this moment we are Ju t now base ball i all the rage. But, after not prepared to tate. The crew undoubtedly all the furor, it personally intere ts only about received their re pective congratulation and con­ nine men out of each cla or department. The dolence. Probably later in the evening the scene re t of u un killed mortals may watch the shifted to the Massa oit Hou e, where without game for our share of the port and exerci e. doubt, the u ual amount of" student vandalism I certain! y do not wi h to discourage ball­ and barbarism " occurred. Probably all thi pla ying. But there are many in college who do happened, but we are not prepar d to vouch for not play ball. And in the way it is conducted, it, a the hour after the race found us on the it can never become a uni er al college port. N. Y. train, tri\'ing to put time and pace be­ Just now, al o, the coming boat race take tween u and the town of Springfield. Yes, up a good deal of attention. But thi likewi e defeated, humilitited, tired and dinnerles , we i confined to a few in each cla . Foot-ball were off. The one question which kept ever eem to be about the only game in which every recurring to u on our journey was " Shall Yale one can take part. Thi fact alone ought to forever ufFer defeat ? " Look at the ca e as recommend it to every one's attention. We we may, we mu t acknowledge that the re ult are not half acquainted with the majorit of of the niver ity Race i f con idcrable im­ our own cla mate ; much le with the re t portance to the intere t of Yale allege. ow of college. this event mu t either ab orb more intere t in No sport ha been more thoroughly enjoyed college or mu t be abandoned. One of the for the la t two or three } ear than foot-ball. principal cau e of defeat thi year wa the lack o matche have excited more intere t than of general enthu ia m. It i very well to have the foot-ball matches at the Park. The grumble and talk about the inefficiency of the benefit of the exerci e which it give none will captain, but we trongly u pect that if la t deny. It may not produce a large mu cle a. year' sub cription Ii t were brought forward boating and it i very doubtful whether thi i!-i we hould not find the e grumbler ' name de irable. But no exerci e urpa e it in the upon it. ' We have had, al o, in the la t few development of accuracy of eye, nerve and year , eyeral in tance in which men ha" e de­ agility. clined to j in the Uni\ er ity crew fi r in ufficient Yet, perhap , the greate t benefit of the reason . What can a captain do when the ga~~ i the development of lung-power, an<l college d c not support him? Men refu ing th1. 1 what tudent e -pecially need. For nc to join the crew neglect a duty. In '6+ and I am con ciou that it ha done me permanent '6 5 our victory wa gained a much by enthu- g od, and I long for more.· f cour:e prained ia. m a by kill and mu cle. ankle and brui ed , hin do not add to it attr - And . o let u join in, one and all, and help tion ; but the e are better than brok n fin ger to core another victory fi l<l Yale.