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VOL. XVII. 23 W MAY 28th, 1891. Tt Twenty-Tiirp Street, New York. Published ever horde. $s.00a year in advance, postage free. Single copies :o cents. Back numbers can be had by appl ying to this office. Vol. 1. bound, $30.00; Vol_II., bound, $15.00 ;_ Vols. it tv" V.. VI, VIL, VHT, IX. X., XL, XM, XIlL., XLV, XV. and XVI, bound or'in fat pumbers, at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. ‘Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. \ ICTORY at last! The Metro- politan Museum is finally to be opened to the public every Sunday This is a good step for- congratu- afternooon. ward and a long one. LiF lates the trustees upon this triumph of their better feelings, and thanks them for following the friendly advice he has during the last few years so generously given. When the: entlemen allude to the “pressure” which has been brought to bear upon them, LiFe can ly believe that their love for him s often been diminutive, and lacking in enthusiasm. sa long fight, and mostly uphill, but Lire slept with boots on. Our reward will b: the consciousness that thousands of overworked p: ment, pleasure, and a perpetual to this magnificent museum. ~O it the fire, are not to mi ns that this y nd that th: This interesting hiatus in manly sports is ariously regarded as a triumph of diplomacy on the part of Yale, the result of bad able result of the w ith on Harvard's part, and as an i ing claims of scholarship and athletic- ism. It seems certain that if Harvard had had no graduate athletic committee to revise Captain Dean's engagements, the games would have been played. Bur it so suggested that if Yale, prematurely deprived of the invincible Stagg, had not distrusted the performance of her nine, th would have been played. Captain Calhoun, it seems, objects to the limi- tations that the government of Harvard have seen fit to put upon the athletic engagements of the undergraduates. won't play a lot of men, he says, who make engagements they cannot stick to. It isa laughable situation in spite of its tragic result, and it is reasonable to surmise that no one enjoys it more than Princeton. Harvard says that Princeton is very polite this year, but if Princeton does not enjoy seeing Harvard dosed with the same remedy she lately prescribed for Prince- ton, Princeton's politeness is superhuman, Lire doesn’t care to disentangle this pretty dispute further than to say that for some years past it has been a case of too many cooks with all Harvard's athletic interest If she could get her faculty and overseers to take a year’s vacation and spend it in Europe, she might win something. But after all, if the faculty should withdraw there would be a lot of cranks who would insist that a faculty was a good thing in its pl and that athletics ef preterca nihil, were too slim a diet for a university. There are a good many of these per- sons. They believe in headwork, and would be glad to wit- ness the extinction of al! kinds of intercollegiate sports. When there is a great foot-ball game, or a hot boat race, or a ase-ball game with a big crowd and concomitant enthusiasm, they say that scholarship has gone to the dogs, and that college boys are running too exclus y to wind and muscle. It s the effort to satisfy these enthusiasts that broug about the conditions that induced the base-ball hiatus t year, It is due to them also that the Harvard crew, fora number of years past has had to do without a competent coach, This is the year of their triumph, and they should let out their hozannas and exult. IFE congratulates the President upon his safe return to Washington after experiencing the largest circulation of any President up to date. ‘There is plenty for him to do, particularly if Mr. Blaine’s indisposition carries him off before his usual time to the bracing seclusion of the State of Maine. If Rudini and the Charleston's cruise leave Mr. Harrison any leisure it is hoped that he will devote some of it to Mr. McKinley's tin-plate industry, which is a more interesting infant just now than Baby McKce himself, and apparently a good deal more in need of nursing. EPARTING voyagers are felicitated on the news that of two rival interpretations of the McKinley bill as re- lating to travellers’ effects, the more liberal one prevails; so that, as by the terms of the decision in the Astor case, return- ing Americans may bring in duty free, as many foreign gar- menis as they can afford to buy. comicbooks.com