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Messrs. Hamilton and Maxwell, the Yale bicycle racers, are in constant practice, and expect to lower their records during the coming season. They have made a mile in three minutes two seconds, and three minutes three seconds and a fraction respectively...
...faculty appear to wish, to lessen the element of competition. But can the faculty do this and at the same time accomplish what is generally accepted as their aim, viz.: promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct opposition in the two ideas, lower the competitive element, and support the interests of athletics? It has always seemed to me that competition is the very coundation upon which all athletics rest. Any thrust which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports, and as a direct result...
...Potomac crept forward until it assumed a position astride the Chickahominy river, which greatly embarrassed its operations. Ordinarily it is not deemed bad policy to have a river dividing an army. But the Chickahominy is an exceptional stream from the fact that its bottom is but little lower than its banks, and consequently from heavy rains is convertible into a large lake. Such was the position of the Union army on the morning of May 30, when the booming of guns on the right of the line announces that an attempt is being made to crush keyes' division. Reinforcements...
Some of the freshmen and sophomores at Cornell are grumbling because practice in the gymnasium is required of the two lower classes. The grumblers regard the requirement as an infringement of their "natural rights," but a little reflection, says the Cornell Sun, ought to convince them that this is the only manner in which the benefit of physical exercise will be received by those who are most in need of it. So long as gymnasium practice is voluntary a few of the athletes of the university, who are in need of very little physical exercise, will do most...
...elective courses. No account is made of any other elective which he may have taken, even though he has done as faithful work in an extra as in his regular courses. Every hour not devoted to the required four electives, however well spent in other courses, must tend to lower the student's rank. He is thus discouraged from taking any more electives than the number absolutely necessary for his degree...