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...what is asked. It is hard to believe that even the Faculty intends, against the expressed conviction of its able Committee on Athletics, to deny the game this right. If, however, as seems to be the case, the Faculty intends to do this injustice, it behooves undergraduates to forget for a time the worth of a chastened spirit, and, conscious of a right cause, to fight for football vigorously and without resting...
...Civil War and the record of her sons who fell in it, are things which ought always to be kept proudly in remembrance. To the years of the war more sentiment naturally attaches than to any other period in the history of the University; yet students are apt to forget the significance of the tablets erected in Memorial Hall and the real closeness of their own connection with the men who are there commemorated...
...appears that at Yale a naturally uninteresting chapel service is made still worse by the wrong spirit in which the students attend. They seem too often to remember that they are present only because forced to be, and to forget the nature of the ceremonies in which they take part. Their behavior consequently loses its proper devotional character, and the entire service shows a harmful want of sincerity and earnestness. The students who gather each morning in Appleton Chapel, on the contrary, are there for a purpose of their own and not from any disagreeable necessity. They come because they...
...which has hitherto attended all collegiate football, has been in part to blame for the abuses which have crept into the game, and wholly to blame for the unnatural position which it now occupies. There has been too great a pressure brought upon the college man to make him forget that his athletic sports are intended for his own recreation and benefit, and not for the gratification of the public's love of excitement. The fame of the athlete, even if confined to his own college, might well be sufficient to make him overestimate the importance of his athletic activity...
...have been chosen for their skill in directing training. But over-training has always been such a common fault with even the best of coaches that we urge the captains to see to it that in their ambition to turn out winning crews they will not forget what is obviously their own interest...