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...correspondent seeking information as to the regulation ball for tennis, will find an answer under the article headed "tennis...
...Yale News complains that the management of our freshman team has not answered their letters with sufficient promptitude. The News is probably not aware that our manager was obliged to wait for an answer to his last letter for more than a week, fully as long as he kept them waiting. Considering the great change of ground which Yale, '87 has made, it does not seem strange to us that our manager required time to consider what course to pursue...
Moreover, the signalling by means of a steam whistle having proved misleading, the start will be made as follows: The referee from the "'67" will call out the preparatory warning, "are you ready," and ypon receiving no answer, will fire a gun or pistol as the final signal. As this is a sound not likely to be misunderstood, an even start may be expected. Thus, little by little the necessary arrangements attendant on the class races are becoming perfected. A year or two ago the shells were started for the first time from boats moored in the stream. This made...
...making long trips into the woods, to places where one is obliged to carry his own boat, the canvass canoe will be found to best answer the purpose, as it is ragged on a wooden frame which folds up into a small compass. They are usually square at the ends and are consequently slow sailors. Moreover, there is one serious objection to them, as the writer has learned from real experience, and it is this-a canvass canoe which weighs when new only twenty pounds will, after a month's knocking about, be found to greatly increase in weight. This...
...Harvard student ridicules the idea that unequal development is produced by training for specialties. In answer to the charge he refers to the prominent college athletes in the different branches, and adds they are almost without exception healthy, and well-developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialties may be thrown aside...