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...lose with the greatest excitement and emotion. Cheers, noise of trumpets and horns, waving of hand achieves, 'embracing' and 'general delirium' in all great collegiate games, show this intense excitement of the spectators. Rushline tricks and signals which are enigmatic to opposing sides are next reviewed. Professor Johnston then speaks of the advantages of the training, which 'has enabled the players to show courage, constancy, an intelligent willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability to think connectedly in the presence of physical dangers, to an extent offered by no other form of exercise.' The game that presents...
...Prof. Johnston of Princeton, is preparing a history of Connecticut...
...Princeton alumni of New York dined at the Brunswick last Thursday night, and heard Prof. Alexander Johnston speak upon "The New Princeton." An election of officers were first held, resulting in the choice of President Henry J. Van Dyke, D. D., '73; Vice-Presidents, James W. Alexander, '60; Hon. R. S. Green, '51; John Cadwalder, '59; J. Coleman Drayton, '76, and Charles S. Scribner...
...Prof. Johnston, in his address, said that an impression had gone abroad that foot ball and base base were the principal studies at Princeton, but that was due to the fact that the college was able, with a small number of undergrades, to send out teams which held their own with colleges of more numerous students. He thought there was too much attention paid to athletics by the first term freshmen, as it often caused their failure to pass examination at the end of the term. He favored giving them another examination before the beginning of the second term...
Prof. Alexander Johnston will address the Princeton Club on February 3, at the Hotel Brunswick, on the subject, "New Princeton." The portrait of President McCosh, recently painted by the Hungarian artist, Munkacsy, will be on exhibition...