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...pallid cheek and brow fall flakes...
...called. To spectators, also, this tournament will be interesting, and probably very amusing. Any break in the winter's dulness is certain to be acceptable. The Athletic Association has shown praiseworthy activity in this matter, and we wish it would consider, at the present time, the results of its fall and summer meetings. In all of them there have been very few contestants, and among these a lack of thorough training. Some suggestions we made last fall as to how this might be remedied, by requirring the ground to be covered in a fixed time, and by handicapping the winners...
Again, we have no means of determining on whom our blame shall fall. Defects may be due to the negligence of officers in not keeping the steward up to the mark, or to the total incapacity of a steward, who, if secure of the Corporation, may neglect the order of those who are really his employers. Neither officers nor steward report to the Association, nor are the proceedings of the Board of Directors made public, in order that we may judge how far each member of that Board deserves our confidence or our censure. And even if it is clearly...
Under these circumstances, when there is a difference of opinion between the coach and the captain, the latter naturally wishes the decisive word, as in case of mistake the blame will fall upon him, and though ready to abide by his own mistakes, he naturally does not care to be responsible for those of another. This has been the cause of separation between the crew and the late coach. The latter insisted upon a measure which the captain believed to be wrong; he was therefore obliged to choose between rejecting the directions of the coach and retaining his own method...
...soon, brain-sick, we fall away...