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...pushing or pulling" rule will rob the former weight work of its effectiveness. In any case the offense has been balanced, if not over-balanced. With four chances to gain 10 yards and with the privilege to throw the forward pass any distance (thus compelling the defending side to maintain a secondary defence well back of the line of scrimmage) it will require a strong set of forwards to hold even a mediocre back-field for downs. In other words, where the teams are equally matched, possession of the ball will be everything. Very few games, even those between teams...
...comfortable lead. H. M. Warren '13 was thus handicapped by about 40 yards, and before the end of his relay had lost an equal amount. The third man for the University, W. H. Fernald '12, gained slightly on O. Hedlund for four laps but was unable to maintain this advantage on the last. Halpin, the B. A. A. half-miler, took up the race at this point for the Boston team and finished the distance 100 yards in the lead. The time of the winning team for the 3200 yards was 7 minutes, 34 4-5 seconds...
...third place, the government which we want must, in order to maintain its claim to be called a government, act as public opinion dictates...
...rather than to enter the field as candidates for election. But even so, the present attitude is in strong contrast to the old feeling that an educator could have no part in politics, when, with the predominance of the classics, the professor felt it far beneath his dignity to maintain an interest in current affairs...
...teams because of low standing in college studies. There is not the slightest doubt in the mind of any sane individual but that the College office is doing its plain duty in rigorously enforcing the rule that, to take part in college athletics, undergraduates shall be required to maintain a certain standard in their curriculum work. Although Harvard men are perfectly well aware that such a rule exists and is enforced, every year there appear to be some who fail to realize its true significance until actually debarred from representing the University on an athletic team. An athlete who allows...