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...door for improvement in the inter-collegiate code is wide open for a decided advance towards the English Foot-ball Association's rules, with the view of encouraging kicking more and contracting the field for rushing with ball in hand. The kicking in this match gave a new interest to the game, which the crowd in general fully appreciated...
London medical students resented the other day the arrest of one of their number who was charged with stealing a book from a hospital. At the Guildhall police court a crowd of students assembled, and by yells and other expressions of interest attracted an extra force of policemen. When the court was opened the proceedings were threatened with a sudden termination, but the judge abmonished the young men, and quiet was restored...
...revival of class races four years ago greatly intensified an already healthy and lasting interest in rowing. As a result, besides having a series of interesting and closely contested races, we have men continually in readiness to fill vacant places in the University crew, while the class boats take from the University captain much of the trouble of elementary coaching and training, and for a time relieve him of the care of his substitutes...
Lacrosse is making a hard struggle for existence at Cambridge University. We are hoping that the proposed visit of the Canadian and American lacrosse teams will increase the interest in this novel game. The Cambridge club numbers forty members, of whom at least one-tenth have played the game before. [Cambridge Corr. Varsity...
...interest in the debating "Unions" of the two great English universities is at present very great. The debates are mostly political, and the party lines of English politics are marked even in these societies. At Cambridge we are informed that at present the Liberals are in the majority, and that Mr. Gladstone's government may have the satisfaction of knowing that its course meets the warm approval of one section at least of the educated community of the country. By means of these debates a lively and well-informed interest is maintained in all public questions. It seems a great...