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...general effect of these resolutions is to defeat one of the ends in view, namely, making athletics more general by lowering the standard and lessening the general interest...
...belongs principally to the students, we object to the appointment by the college authorities of instructors in athletics, without giving the students a voice in such appointment. For the appointment of unsatisfactory instructors might lead to the seeking, on the part of individuals, of outside instruction, thus tending to defeat the general purpose of the resolutions against professionalism...
...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...Harvard freshmen have already begun preparations for their usual annual defeat by the Yale freshmen.-[Globe...
Last year, after we had defeated the university eight in the Passiac regatta, (their defeat being of course claimed to be unfair), they immediately sent us a challenge for a two mile race, which challenge was very properly not accepted...