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Although our foot-ball team did not succeed in capturing the championship this fall, it is certain that they convinced the college of one thing, namely, that whatever support and encouragement their friends have given them was not misplaced. Two or three years ago the interest in foot-ball was very low indeed, and therefore the eleven labored under great disadvantages. Last year, however, by constant and well directed practice, the university team made a very good showing and awakened the interest in foot-ball again. Such was the state of affairs at the beginning of the present season...
...should see to it that the students do not incur heavy expenses on account of their athletic clubs; that the tax is kept within reasonable bounds, and that indulgence does not run to excess, but further they should not go. Unless there is rivalry, an incentive to action, the interest in athletic games at colleges will grow lukewarm, and from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia will come the complaint voiced by Herr Von Gossler, the Prussian minister of education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys in the higher schools of the country shall...
...examined with a larger instrument. Most commonly the observer has no special plan and spends many hours without result, while the same time might have been employed with equal pleasure to himself and results of great value collected. Those who have not tried it do not realize the growing interest in a systematic research and the satisfaction in feeling that by one's own labors the sum of human knowledge has been increased...
...which says that "the Yale freshmen tried the same contemptible methods that their elders from the same college used in the 'Varsity game, but the Harvard freshmen soon convinced them that two could play at that game, and, when the 'slugging' in unfair tackling began, it was returned with interest." For although our eleven showed no symptoms of fright, and presented a strong rush line, yet they certainly did not show fight, and did their blocking with their arms and not with their fists. In fact, the game was, with one exception, perfectly gentlemanly and played in the proper spirit...
...long that there is not the same room for improvement in their case as in the case of those men who have taken but little regular exercise. With so large a number of entries the contest will doubtless be very close, and the result will be awaited with much interest...