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...would not be wrong to consider this their foremost object, if sometimes an object not fully avowed. This element in athletics the Advertiser entirely leaves out of account. "But the growth of the professional spirit has gone," it says, "so far that the idea of playing any game except for the purpose of beating, seems to an undergraduate simply absurd." This statement is both true and not true. It is true that the undergraduate enters into a game generally with the thought prominent in his mind of beating. It is not true that in his whole system of athletics...
...further instructed by the committee on athletics to say that the games must be played upon the grounds habitually used by one of the competing colleges, or upon the grounds of some other college; but that no games are to be played in Boston, New York, or Philadephia, except with the nines of colleges in those cities...
...that the details of the plan will be received with general favor, no further move will be made by the committee. The resolution to which the greatest objection was offered was that which provides that no college organization shall row, or play base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse, or cricket, except with similar organizations from their own or other institutions of learning...
...more developed and better able to engage in the struggle of life. But in the matter of close training and drill, we are inferior. The German University finds its men prepared to build an edifice upon a foundation already laid There is no preliminary work done in the university except in the case of some studies which are not within the scope of the gymnasium, and even here the elements are compressed into a very few lectures, and the student is left to fill in the outlines by private study. An American will find himself somewhat at a disadvantage, when...
...special permission of the faculty, members of the St. Paul's Society will allowed to substitute attendance at the daily prayers of the society, during Lent, for prayers at Appleton Chapel. These services are held at 5.45 P. M., except on Wednesday, when they will be at 7 P. M., and on Saturdays at 8.45 A. M. It is hoped that a large number will avail themselves of this privilege. It is necessary to give notice at the office of intention to make this substitution...