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...boat house for the Weld Club, and Mr. W. S. Youngman persuaded many men to join the Club and to row, and finally succeeded in proving to the lofty ones at the University Boat House that there were other men in College who could row, thus greatly increasing the element of competition...
Although the element of unfairness in the class football game between the Sophomores and the Freshmen was entirely beyond precedent and likely to undermine class spirit, the officials have decided That their judgement in declaring that the game should be played over, was wrong, since the two classes believed themselves in the right in the tactics they used. The officials feel that a pre. cedent could not be established fairly during the course of a game and have therefore decided that the Sophomore team be decided the winner...
...conference with the University football authorities, this final judgement of the officials was approved, and it was further determined that hereafter class games shall be played in a fair spirit of competition and that the element of unfairness that prevailed in yesterday's game be done away with in the future...
...believe, however, that American scholarship is "all that it ought to be." One reason for this belief offers itself at once: "In Germany the very idea of a university demands productive scholarship as the centre and primary interest of all university activity; in America it is an accessory element, a secondary factor, almost a luxury, which is tolerated but never demanded as a condition." This is because in America there is no sharp line drawn between university work and college work as is the case in Germany. The regular college work does not require and even rather hinders productive scholarship...
...origin the theatre was closely connected with the worship of he god Dionysys; tragedy began with the narration and then the performance of the adventures of the god by a chorus of satyrs, who danced and sang rude songs. Soon the subject broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation of the stage and perhaps of the priests of Dionysus preserved in the satyr play an interesting memorial of earlier days. Each tragic poet presented at the feast of the patron-god four plays; the last of these...