New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-26


shoulders Of Springer and kilgorei
II the revolution in Cuba is the trivial. affair
that the Madrid Government would have the
world believe the action Of Spain in sending
largo bodies OF additional troops to the island
would seem to require considerable explaining
II "a difficult TO believe that she Is sending 5000
soldiers n Cuba merely for the benefit they may
derive from the sea voyage.
Cribbing. az practised at colleges and unversi.
ties possesses considerable analogy to plagiarism
and II IL ONLY natural under the circumstances
that the students of the University OF Athens
should feel sympathetcally inclined toward the
rrofessor OF archaeology who has just been dis
missed from his chair in disgrace, on Its being
discovered that the learned treatise which had
won for him the suffrages OF the facuity and
secured him his office was literal translation
of an obscure German publication. TO such an
extent did the young men OF Athens carry their
fellow-feeling for the professor that they actual
Is organized a deputation to wait upon the King
with the object OF obtaining his reinstatement
The sovereign experienced considerable difficulty
IN endeavoring to prove to the petitioners that the
dismissal had been effected in their own inter-
ests and IL is understood that his decision 10 re.
frain from compliance with their demands has
led to so much bad feeling among the under.
graduate dlhss that measures have had 10 be
adopted TO prevent it's degenerating into popu-
lar rising.
This country took nearly s5O0O00OO Of Cubas
ss5 600 600 of exports last year And now spain
ia bebav wing in a manner that may compel us To
take the island itself
An electric railroad is planned to run from
Jamaica through a number OF towns on the souua
side Of Long Island. This Is a healthy sign
Facilities for travel on the island at present are
limited and any addition to them Will be Wei
come boon 10 the inhabitants, and will tend U
increase their number.
The agitation against certain opJecuoharN
features of football arose too late to AFFECT that
game last season, but 1t appears 10 DE bearing
fruit in another field OF college athleucs' one
OF the chief evils complained OF was the pracuce
Of playing In this city where vast cro"ds' IN
Guiding thousands Of men who never saw the
inside Of college hall, and don't know tne
difference between a Greek root and an isosceies
triangle. would flock to witness contests waged
nomnally for the glory of the universities wnlch
the respective elevens owned as their alma matters
The gate receipts from such games MADE pos
slble training Injuries. like private cars out
CHAMPIONSHIPS were won and lost and the game
was played as scientifically and Interestingly De-
fore these "frills" were added. Yale. Princeton
and Harvard have just completed their oase'
hall schedules Harvard Is 70 play Penhsyls
van!a in Philadelphia, and proposes 10 meet
Yale "in case Of a te,' In New-fork' most Ut
her other games will be played at Cambridge
Princeton will appear once here, when she plays
the Giants; and may play Brown In this city,
and also Yale II there should be tie bo'h
Harvard and Princeton have scheduled theT ue
game for New-Haven. Yale. which has oeeh Una
chief target OF criticism In football, will be repre-
scented this season in over thirty games on 'h7
green diamond OF which only five are 70 %
nayed in large cities. two OF those arranged io'
New-York being with professionals. ana 'hs
third with a minor college in point OF athie'cS
The Harvard Princeton tie, II there be one Is 70
ba n,aved off In New-Haven this year; the pos
sih,e third Yale-Harvard game Is likely 70 oa
contested in Springfield. and the Yale-PrincetoY
tie II tie there be- will probably be decided az
Williamstown So, according TO the faIe pro-
gramme. this city is not likely to see single his''
class college baseball game.