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...general oxordium to the recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree...
...have had occasion before to call attention to the "rough" element which appears in the college yard night and day, and it is certainly time that measures were taken to correct this nuisance. The guilty parties are mostly confined to the genus "mucker" who have a most wonderful and varied command of the vocal organs. Indeed some of the sounds that issue forth from the lips of these specimens are astounding and remind one of a large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling...
...suggest the following changes to correct the evils enumerated above...
...each position in this list, the per cent. which won the same relative position in the proficiency list. This plan, it is evident, gives as much importance to the quantity, as to the quality of work. It seems strange at first, but it is reasonable, and it would correct the evil...
Members will please correct the list of affiliated tradesmen as printed in November, 1883, by making the following changes...