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...that unbiased outsiders should designate the men, and the captain should simply train and manage the material selected under suitable advisors. The arguments advanced by the supporters of this scheme are, of course, numerous, and include among others the abolition of the charge of favoritism, which is not infrequently heard; the offering of a larger number of men as candidates, if they know outside parties are to consider their qualifications; more conscientious play by those selected when they realize that their position is not dependent upon the favor of the captain, but upon their own merits; better playing...
...pronounced broken, and he was taken home unconscious. Yesterday he was feeling much better. The faculty of the School of Mines held a meeting the next day, but nothing was said concerning the rush, and several of the Professors, including the Dean of the faculty, said they had not heard of the accident. It is against the rules of the college to rush "within the gates...
When we consider the grave trouble at Princeton some years ago, and when now we hear the reports of unusual illness at Yale, we have reason to congratulate ourselves that Harvard has for years maintained the reputation of being a perfectly healthful place. We have heard of a parent, undecided as to whether he should send his boy to Yale or Harvard, settling finally on the latter, solely because of the reported malarial tendencies of New haven. And this imminity of Harvard is undoubtedly due in great measure to the wise fore-thought of the college authorities. Three...
...setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have done much to expand the chests and cultivate the biceps of American youth, but these benefits have been dearly purchased at the price of the invention of the exasperating "rah, rah, rah" which is now heard wherever two or three college students are gathered together...
...that either before or after that time it is most potent to rouse all the innate evil of which that savage breast is capable. Study is quite impossible when a tuneful youth, lost in musical devotion, is giving vent to a series of efforts which cannot but be easily heard even from afar off. When more than one is performing, as sometimes happens, the effect is indescribable-it is really unique. But, in all seriousness, men ought to be more careful how they break the rules in this respect, for any such violation results in a great deal of annoyance...