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...that the series are doomed ot run themselves out in a short time. The farce kills the sport; it lowers the standard of play and lowers also the position of the games in the eyes of college men so that the spur for hard, serious practice is blunted. The downward tendency grows constantly stronger, It means that in a short time the series will have no excuse for existence...
...Harvard backs did brilliant work. For this they deserve all the credit that is given them, but their performances should not be taken as a criterion of what is to happen in the Yale game. Neither should the students draw the conclusion that the eleven is treading on the downward way if, when they line up against a stronger team than Brown in defensive work, the interference seems to be less effective. The team has given just cause for the thorough confidence of the University and as the critical time approaches they should be made more and more to feel...
...water clean, and then comes in the feature advocated by J. Watson Taylor-the shooting out of the arms from the body like the "rebound of a billiard ball from the cushion." This gets the shell of the hands easily. The hands are shot a trifle downward, feathering being done at the same time, and then follows the slide forward, in which the ingenuity of Mr. Cook excels. Instead of the eight men letting their bodies move gradually forward on the slides, allipull on their stretchers, making the first part of the slide very rapid, while they slow down just...
...opportunities of a career in practical Geology and Engineering. He said that he considered the outlook for geologists in this country to be a very promising one. The state surveys and those made by the government employ about 1500 men, who receive salaries ranging from $4000 a year downward. The pay a man may expect to receive his first year is about $50 a month and field expenses. One of the best tields for a geologist is in the mines. The salary of a mine superintendent in the eastern part of the United States is usually...
...that the University was an individual which could not be divided and the degradation or uplifting of a part of its members could not help but degrade or uplift the whole and that every one by his own life was bound to do his best to overcome the downward tide...