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Park Square cars now run every ten minutes between 6.30 and 11.30 A. M., and 4 and 8 P. M., and every fifteen minutes during the rest...
...whatever tendendency to professionalism there has been of late years can be corrected without such sweeping changes as the faculty proposes. A middle course is possible to this extent, that we can retrace our steps and place college athletics once again in the position which they held ten or fifteen years ago when hardly a hint of professional taint or of undue excess was ever made. Indeed the gap between the two methods of reform is not so very wide. Not-withstanding these consideration however, we believe the college stands ready to accept the experiment of the faculty and test...
...necessarily have acquaintance with one or more European languages and the dearth in literati among the Russians results rather from a lack of power of expression than any other special reason. The boys of the higher classes enter the gymnasia or military schools when they are from twelve to fifteen years of age where they remain for six years of age where they remain for six years of classical study...
...which college athletes have turned their skill to profit; probably if a complete record had been kept twenty-five or thirty cases of this sort could be cited. That is a remarkably large number, when we consider that professional base-ball playing has practically been in existence only about fifteen years and that there are only ten or fifteen colleges that have good nines, and when we remember that all the instincts and surroundings of a college man would tend to dissuade him from becoming a professional athlete." As an interesting commentary on the above in showing what influences...
...president that on such a day so many duels must be fought, the president calls for volunteers, if none step forward he drafts men for the duty, the secretaries of the opposing corps arrange the pairs for the mensur. The regulation requires that every duel shall continue fifteen minutes, unless terminated sooner by the exhaustion of one of the parties. However, if one of the combatants feels himself superior to the other, he is at liberty to say "I am tired," thereby ending the duel; and this is generally done, unless there was some personal reason for the duel...