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This scene is doubtless repeated every year. Every Freshman class has to be awakened to the sad truth, is at first surprised, then indignant, and perhaps at last, in many cases, rebellious. The upper classes after having made various attempts; with complaints and petitions, have become resigned. They recognize the fact that legally recitations cease the afternoon before, and begin the morning after Thanksgiving day, and suit their actions accordingly,- which means that most of them go home, stay over Sunday, and come back only to hear of small audiences in chapel, and of the numbers attending recitations being...
...copp" more prudent than valiant retreats. In this case discretion was doubtless the better part of valor. We in the front rank agreed to throw down our torches. Now comes the rush. I can tell you little except what happened to myself. I pulled my "plug" down over my ears and rushed in. At the first onset somebody knocked off my hat- I thought my head had gone too- I put my hands up, it is my head, still there, thank heaven! But I have no reason to rejoice, for when I left home that night as the last buckle...
...must have a good physique and a cool head. Foot ball, to be sure, as generally played today, is conceded to be too rough and dangerous, but even foot ball helps to train a man in physical and mental alertness. Base ball, being attended with less danger, and being doubtless a more scientific game, is still more beneficial. The same general truth applies in a greater or less degree to rowing lacrosse, cricket, and tennis...
...different branches of athletics. A third class of men who exercise, not from love of exercise, but more from a mere sense of duty. Such men, unfortunately are not few. We see them at regular hours in the gymnasium, doing everything in a mechanical sort of way. They are doubtless benefited, and perhaps considerably benefited, by this gymnasium exercise. But such a thing gets monotonous; the body is active, but the mind becomes uninterested. Mechanical exercise may be very good, but it is not merely as beneficial as modes of exercise which are for something additional to merely physical development...
...pride go before a fall. There will doubtless be tougher adversaries to meet before the season has closed. Exeter has a fine eleven this season and then there is the freshman Yale game, for which this previous work is all preparatory. The Yale men have the advantage of playing a dropped '87 man, who was one of the strongest players on the eleven of last year, their men are working hard and the material seems from all reports to be good. In a game against the Yale University eleven the freshmen held them down to a score of only...