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...Dartmouth correspondent of the Exonian in the course of a letter remarks: "When I touch upon base-ball at Dartmouth, I am well aware that I am nearing delicate ground, because our position last year was not one calculated to call forth general acclamation. However, there is always that bright beacon - hope-and it really looks now as if we might "take a brace." Our prospective pitcher is Dillon, of '88, who in form and action resembles your old foe, Vinton, more than anyone else I have ever seen. One of the Western college journals says that 'Dartmouth...
...characterizes the Athletic Association cannot but be pleasing to all interested in physical culture. How pleasing this life must be to the undergraduates called to the head of the association for this year. When the college year opened last fall, the prospect which met their eyes was anything but bright. Indeed, to many the prospect appeared gloomier than ever before. Two years had elapsed since a trainer had been permitted by the faculty to prepare men in general athletics; the last of the celebrated college athletes trained in the old days had graduated, and comparatively few new men had taken...
...civil and military service to competitive examination, thus giving the sons of the poorest and humblest men in the country a fair chance of filling places in the government service, which had previously been reserved for the younger sons of the gentry with such rigor that John Bright once called that service "a vast system of out-door relief for the British aristocracy." Indeed, it was said that "in England the opening of the civil and military service, in its influence upon the national education, was equivalent to a hundred thousand scholarships and exhibitions of the most valuable kind...
...without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter-collegiate association had made the annual changes in the rules. Surely if there is the strong public opinion on the subject which the committee has painted, the association must...
...have found that our former prognostications of success have seldom come true, therefore we are resolved this year not to prognosticate. While the team seems to be training steadily enough, its prospects cannot be said to be over bright. The battery will be new and inexperienced, and although there are several of last year's nine remaining, the fact of being on last year's nine does not give them much prestige ; success for the nine is not impossible, but it does not seem probable."-[Princetonian...