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...door practice. Whatever opinions may be held in regard to the benefit of practice in the field before the cold weather is finally out of the way, everybody must recognize the determination which the nine thus shows to put in good work at every opportunity. Let the nine keep on in the good course it has begun and we will prophesy for it, if not certain success, at least a series of hard-fought and closely contested games with Yale. We congratulate the nine on the early arrangements of dates for its games with the Yale freshmen. They will thus...
...work. As yet, however, the snow and ice on Holmes have interfered with extensive practice, so it will be a day or two before the team can set their posts and have a regular game. Until then there is sufficient work to be done by the new men to keep them busy if they are to attain anything like proficiency in the many elements of this popular sport. A few days of preliminary out door practice might also do much to help the nines before they are called upon to begin their steady playing...
...first ten strokes are allowed for, and fouling is carefully guarded against, although the Inter-Collegiate rules give a chance for fouls by allowing boats to depart from their course. Such a permission is liable to cause trouble sooner or later. The Harvard and Yale boats are required to keep in a course no nearer than ten feet and no further than one hundred feet from the line of central buoys...
Columbia College proposes to issue an appeal for means to enable it to enter more fully into competition with the leading universities of the land. The college is well enough endowed to keep quietly on its present course; but it is deemed advisable to increase its accommodations, and to make a bid in its behalf for recognition as a university...
Joseph Cook in his last Monday's lecture at Tremont Temple has given his ideas of what should be the habitual train of thought of college youth. He should try, Mr. Cook insists, to keep alive the celestial fire of conscience. "A young man who allows himself to be ridden over by the roughs of college life for four years is not likely to be able to stand against the bad influences around him in after life. But if he cannot stand against them he is a coward and a poltroon and hardly worth saving. A man's character...