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...each and all have a certainity of one seat apiece? It is no answer to say that many are not satisfied with one. At present nobody, save a favored few, is sure of one seat; it is a scramble in which private influence and the largest purse alone can command success...
...There was hardly a candidate of them all who was as heavy as the centre and guards ought to be. In spite of repeated calls upon the class, no suitable heavy men turned up and the aaptain and coaches had to go to work with the material at their command. It is incredible that there should be no heavy men in Ninety-five; and if Yale should prove stronger on Saturday, the freshman class will have to realize that its own lack of proper spirit and enthusiasm is to account for the result...
...steady, hard punter, but a deadly drop kicker. How much the position of captain will affect his play remains to be seen, but it will have to be a serious drawback to counterbalance the work of which he has shown himself capable. The men he has under his command will enjoy that prestige which comes with victory, and the mass of college players from among whom he will draw his men to fill any gaps in his ranks is larger in point of numbers than ever before. A good part of them also have been well broken...
Surely, a training which gives a man command of himself, and power to awake enthusiasm in other men, is one of no small consequence...
...motives. Our duty always shows itself to us as the best thing, yet one which we have power to reject. There are many acts to which the sense of duty has no application, but where pleasure may be allowed free play. Moreover the same thing which duty would command is done better if we do it from love. But duty is needed to keep us true, till our loves are surely wise and strong. We shall do well to help out our sense of duty, by a vivid sense of the consequences of acts. Duty works order and beauty...