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Voice after voice in damnable antiphone suggests the remissness of the faculty in this thing or that or the other. And ourselves? Oh, we undergraduates have enough to do in finding fault...
Sears, full-back, has the great fault of not falling on the ball. Is inclined to fumble, but when he gets the ball runs hard and well...
...London. Let every man of brains and energy feel it his duty to oppose in every possible way this growing lethargy and indifference and, worse than all, snobbishness. What is a man does assert himself too forcibly or is a trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears...
...open until five o'clock on Saturdays, as on other days, instead of being closed at one. It often happens that a man is obliged, by illness or other causes, to cut his laboratory work for a few days. He thus gets behindhand in his work, yet through no fault of his own. If the laboratories were open on Saturday afternoon it would be a great boon to such students, enabling them to make up, without obliging them to cut or crowd other things as important, which they may have on their hands. It seems to me that such...
...mind of anyone who has been a constant spectator at the practice games that with the material at hand only the most diligent work on the part of every member of the team will enable Yale to make a good showing in the championship games. The most glaring fault in the play of the team as a whole has been thus far a tendency to high tackling. Although a great improvement has been noticeable in the general play of the team in the last practice game with Wesleyan, it was not sufficient to warrant any great expectations, as the large...