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...dangerous and brutalizing of all sports. It is true that men are occasionally injured seriously on the football field; but for that reason are we to cultivate effeminate dispositions and weak bodies? We hold that the game of football is a manly, invigorating, and ennobling sport. It teaches self-control, coolness at critical moments, quickness of motion, and gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made that those who are training for some athletic team are "entitled to the preference in the gymnasium and elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/30/1888 | See Source »

...Princetonian, Lit. and Philadelphian have changed hands, and '89 has now control of all publications so that a new year and a new condition of things have been ushered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Letter. | 4/24/1888 | See Source »

...tendency to combination, resulting in our railroads and other corporations. As these corporate bodies have increased in size and importance, their relations with the state and with individuals have grown more and more complex, until now men of great legal knowledge must be placed in control of these corporations in order to steer them safely through the mazes of the law. The constantly increasing number of patents, and the questions raised by the development of electric heating and lighting, have opened new fields for the lawyer. In order to succeed in these branches of the law, a lawyer must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Abbott's Lecture. | 4/18/1888 | See Source »

...very sad accident occurred last Saturday to one of the Chapel choir boys. Cyrus Furbish was riding along the street on his bicycle when he lost control of it and fell under the heels of a horse standing attached to a wagon near the sidewalk. The horse started, dragging the boy with his machine under the wheels. The boy received injuries so serious that death resulted Sunday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor | 4/3/1888 | See Source »

...their established policy of allowing the undergraduates to govern themselves. If the request is granted, the men will feel bound in honor to do nothing which would tend to dishonor our University. Games with professionals would teach the nine to accept defeat with resignation. They would learn to control their feelings; and thus a better condition of affairs would exist when we meet with defeat upon the college ball field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/30/1888 | See Source »