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Athletic sports have grown so rapidly during the last few years that it is now impossible for any one committee to keep thoroughly informed on all the details of all the sports, and without a knowledge of these details the committee would be incompetent to act as managers or advisors. In my opinion the very nature of these contests precludes any committee, composed of Faculty members and appointed to regulate athletics, from assuming to manage the practical affairs of the different clubs and associations. On the other hand few graduates can afford to give the time necessary, even if they...
...crying need in our colleges today is the advice and instruction of experts. The whole subject has simply grown beyond the capacity of Faculty, students and graduates, and if athletics are to be pursued along the same line of other branches in education, that is with a view of obtaining the highest degree of excellence, institutions must employ special instructors trained for the purpose. This is a conclusion from which I should gladly escape, for it will greatly add to the difficulty and expense of keeping up an interest in athletics, but it is the natural results of a failure...
...representation of "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," which the Conference has undertaken this year is now pretty well started. This will be the fifth annual representation, given by the society, the characters of the plays having grown in difficulty and interest each year. Last year was the first attempt to produce a classic, and "Les Precieuses Ridicules," was in every way a success...
...Saturday has only an existence of a very few years. Those who in the spring of 1886 saw the first meeting of the association at Southboro' in which but three schools competed, would hardly have believed that in the short space of six years the association could have grown to its present proportions. With the growth of the association has come a marked rise in the standard of the athletics themselves. At the first meeting of the association the hundred yards dash was run on one of the Southboro' roads; now there is no track which the young athletes consider...
...mangrove tree has been successfully grown under glass at the Biological School of the University of Pennsylvania. All previous attempts to cultivate this tree in the United States have failed...