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...though there are some undeniably good men in it, it does not satisfy the university at all. To begin with its members are elected on a totally wrong principle. Any man, who speaks twice from the floor, is at once taken into the society. It does not depend on the character of his speeches at all, only on the number. The result is that the Union is composed largely of men who have no real claim to a speaking ability and that consequently membership in the Union is not and can not be thought very highly of. What every...
...great city attracts men of all classes; it draws men of great force whether good or bad because it demands men of force; it draws weak imperfect men because they think that in the cities they can depend on others. Work of most kinds can be done to better advantage in the cities than elsewhere. The problem then becomes not how we can do away with cities but how we can utilize them...
...Princeton will undoubtedly make the moat desperate struggle possible when she meets Yale on Thanksgiving Day. The future football prospects of the college depend on the outcome of the struggle. Defeated, they will see all their former prestige slip away, while if they win they will strengthen their position with the football public, but will put the association in a queer plight. Providing Princeton defeats Yale and Pennsylvania vanquishes Wesleyan, the standing of the colleges would be as follows...
...playing a very uneven game, some times doing really good work but the next moment showing that it is impossible to depend upon them. Their chief faults are, in the line, a tendency to "scrap" so much that they become unsteady on their feet, are easily blocked off, cannot block-off themselves and lose sight of the ball. The guards especially seem to think that they are on the field chiefly to maul all the men opposite them. The chief faults of the backs are, first, a tendency to get separated when running, so that all interference is lost...
...next consideration is the scope of the magazine, which would necessarily depend on its need. There need be no literary attempts, but the paper should give three things: a record of the life of the University, a record of the life of the graduates, a medium of communication and an opportunity for the inter-change of opinions between the two bodies...