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...event announced by the H. A. A. for the next winter meeting will offer a valuable opportunity for sprinters to learn to start before an audience. The race will be so short that the man who gets the best of the start will almost surely win. New men are apt to be nervous in starting and some men who run well when once under way are slow in getting off. These men will be especially benefited by the ten yard dash, and ought to enter in sufficient numbers to make an interesting race...
...poor ambltion for the wealthy young man to make pleasure the sole pursuit of his life. He has a poor soul who does not appreciate that in this nineteenth century is the grandest opportunity for good deeds and reform. The thing for the man of leisure to learn to know is first, that leisure means work, and secondly, that he must have enthusiasm. He who does not have to labor for his daily bread ought to laber for mankind...
...have Jarvis field, or some other college field for practice. The use of these grounds will bring cricket before the college more prominently than ever before; and additional interest will be given by the match with Yale which it is hoped to arrange. The game is not difficult to learn, and no one should be deterred from becoming a candidate for the eleven on account of inexperience. A quick eye and a cool head are the chief requisites; the rest can be acquired by practice. Harvard's showing last year was better than that of the year before. To keep...
...spplied for permission to take the course was so large that all could not be accommodated at the Cambridge Manual Training school. It the school were properly equipped with machinery and tools, there is no doubt that many students would avail themselves of the opportunity to learn the use of tools...
...lovers of fine sport who here find their fill of the best fishing and hunting in the country. A. Austin contributes "Theory and Practice of Boxing" He gives a list of all the technical points of this sport, and sets forth pretty plainly the principles on which one should learn this art; his ideas are sound and practical. The article of this issue relating most directly to college affairs is "Athletics at Cornell." The writer is evidently a partisan of Cornell for he favors her at every point, but nevertheless he gives us a very clear idea of the origin...