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or that to eityher team the game should be in any wise spoiled as a lark, and reduced more to a contest pure & simple. It seemed to me as if there must have been some misunderstanding on the part of the Stanford girls in making their refusal.

You will know, being on the ground, what their reasons were, and how far they are fixed, or whether it is best even to ask them if on second thoughts it does not seem best to them to reconsider. If they have on their part any little courtesy to ask, or if you know of anything (outside the arrangements of the game itself, concerning which, of course, an ignorant outsider like myself would not dare to ventyure a meddling word) that would go to enhance