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...First, for twenty-five dollars more than is now paid, the best dance orchestra in Boston can be secured. Thus the complaints about the music can be answered. Second, the crowd must be kept back so that the dancers may have more room. As it is now the spectators keep eagerly pushing to the front until they work their way nearly half way down the hall, leaving a large empty space behind them. If a double or triple line of benches or chairs fastened firmly together were placed at a convenient distance from the door, the crowd would be stayed...
...petition begins by giving its reasons why a coach should be granted the nine. In the second part of the petition it classifies the objections under (a) dislike of professionalism and (b) indifference to the merits of the question. The first arises from a desire to keep our athletics pure, and the second from non-appreciation of the value of professional practice. It contrasts the deportment on the field of professional and amateur nines, and argues that no harm can come frome contact with a professional team, since the chance for personal intercourse between the members of the different nines...
...encouragement of any branch of athletics; for surely there are few kinds of exercise which surpass fencing in bene ficial effects, or as a training for the muscles. Therefore, let every man who can, be present Thursday evening and help the formation of a club which shall keep up the interest in one of the best forms of exercise which all can enjoy...
...should not be turned over to the States. (a) The U. S. should keep the lands for the settlers; (b) it is an interstate affair, since the streams cross State boundaries...
...Again, the race with Harvard is toward the end of June, and if we trained our crew for a race in April it would be hard to keep them in fit physical condition for the June race with Harvard. These reasons seem to us here at Yale to e weighty enough almost to necessitate placing the date of the proposed Yale-Cambridge race in July or early in August. We don't know how the Englishmen feel about it because we have not heard from them yet. We shall open negotiations soon and see how they look at the question...