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...Harvard boat club, according to a Boston paper, propose putting a second eight upon the water, which shall contest with the University of Pennsylvania for the proud title of champions of the world. Although the prejudices acquired in nearly four years at Yale have rather incapacitated us for looking with unalloyed delight on the aquatic victories of Harvard, yet in the present instance we confess that we would be more than pleased to see her second eight victorious over the crew which so confidently appealed to the public opinion to award it the championship because no college found it convenient...
There is one event included in the contests for the inter-collegiate cup to which we do not think the Athletic Association pays sufficient attention. We refer to the tug-of-war contest, which is passed over as of secondary importance by the officers of the association. As the sports will be exceedingly close this year, and every effort must be made to retain the emblem which we have held for so many years, it seems a good time for training more carefully than heretofore a team for this event. We can of course have no regular trainer for this...
...very objectionable if it is to depend upon hotel men and their followers for its patronage. This hardly seems just. In these days of enormous expenditures for athletics, anything which will honorably lighten the burden of the students will meet with approbation. Boat-races are a species of contest which do not make any money returns to the crews for their expenses for travel, board, training, boats, vans, etc. While the manager of a college ball nine or team may depend on gate receipts to pay for many of their expenses, the manager of a crew is wholly dependent...
...struggle to lessen the importance of Greek in the curriculum by giving more prominence to French and German has been again and again renewed; and now, strengthened by Adams's essay read before the Phi Beta Kappa in June, the supporters of the modern languages have renewed the contest with more vigor than ever before. At the last meeting of the faculty the subject was introduced and discussed, but, of course, no definite action was taken, nor is it probable that any decisive steps will be taken in a matter of such vital importance until the whole subject has been...
...more dangerous than it was ? Most of the accidents occur under the Rugby Union rules, and the players vaunt the change from the old twenty to the fifteen game. The improvement makes the game faster, but it brings with it far more falls and collisions than the old shoving contest. To have abolished the "maul-in-goal" is at any rate a good thing ; but foot-ball is more dangerous than the hunting-field...