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...excellence on the part of other players can remedy the defect. The pitcher, with the assistance of the catcher, is depended on to do the work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural result. A team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing anything. Success in a game depends, too often, not on particularly good play on the part of the winners, but on some particular error or succession of errors on the part of the losers. Base-ball...
...contains the following anecdote concerning a Harvard professor: "John Quincy Adams was an advocate of early rising. Professor Greenleaf, of the Harvard Law School, was not. One day the ex-president attended lecture, and fell asleep. The professor pointed to him and addressed the class, 'Young gentlemen, behold the effect of early rising.' It is a reminiscence of one of the students...
...effect of the change from slave to free labor in the Southern States of the Union...
Prof. Summer addressed the Yale Alumni Association at its annual banquet December 28th. One point in his remarks was to the effect that religion or sectarian ideas were not pushed upon the attention of Yale students. We should think...
...also add to this testimony that of the Yale correspondent of the N. Y. Post, who has been investigating the subject and who reports that he "has consulted with some of the leading professors as to the effect of athletics on men's mental training, and invariably he has been told that it is highly beneficial. With the exception of a few days before the one or two great contests, they say that during the whole period of training the athletic men display wonderful quickness in apprehension, and work harder than the majority of their fellows who have nothing...