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Tomorrow the bars of propriety will be lowered, staid looks, flowing gowns and flashing buttons laid aside, and the Senior class, filled with a wild abandon, their loins girt up with overalls, will go forth to picnic. For four years the main endeavor of each man has been the acquisition of knowledge. Tomorrow the chief pursuit will be pleasure. For four years the class has gathered for its smokers and dinners. Tomorrow it will gather for the last occasion of merriment, the last festival and carnival of jollity, during the days of undergraduate enrolment in the University. Let 1916 rally...
...interdormitory teams without sufficient practice as a unit. Victory is, of course, not an end in itself; but human nature is so constituted that the prospect of victory is needed to bring out the greatest enthusiasm and effort. One-sided competition is unsatisfactory and disheartening. And the proposal to abandon Freshman intercollegiate athletics entirely involves a revolutionary principle. Carried to its logical conclusion it would involve the abolition of all intercollegiate sports. As the system stands the incentive of a Freshman game with Yale is probably essential to the greatest competitive development of future University players. The idea of persuading...
...Yale crew committee has announced that Yale crews will have their spring practice on the Housatonic River, below Derby, on a four-mile course which the committee has recommended. Temporary quarters will be erected for housing the shells and for crew dressing-rooms. The crews will abandon the harbor entirely. Should the Housatonic prove to be an ideal course, arrangements will be made to transfer by barges the George Adee boathouse, which cost $100,000 to erect. The need of funds to move the boathouse seems to be the only drawback to the proposition...
...point of noticeable deficiency in the offense, however, was the deplorable lack of interference. Mahan was often impeded by the slowness of the shield of men in front of him, and at times he had to abandon his protection in order to elude tacklers from behind. Rollins, too, easily overtook his interference. The interference does not seem to rush with that ferocious charge, which marked the Harvard interference of last year, and often on Saturday a Crimson player instead of plunging into the opposing tackler, would merely try to ward him off from the play. A noticeable exception was Harte...
...subject for the triangular debate with the Yale and Princeton freshmen will--be: "Resolved, That the United States should abandon the Monroe Doctrine...