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...brought in. We are allowed, as before, to run with the ball after having caught it on the bounce or fly; but with this exception we seem to have gained nothing of importance. The fault does not rest with our delegates. As before remarked, it is utterly impossible to make up rules by compromise that will suit all. Some one particular game, and that the best game that can be found, should be adopted, and every college should conform strictly to its rules. In giving up our so-called "Harvard Game," we worked a complete revolution in our system...
...wake up there! - are you going up to the Pudding meeting? Somebody is yelling outside for us to come up and make a quorum...
...that only counts a small per cent! I sha' n't look at it till the semiannual. Did you see the Club races, Harry? I meant to go in, but somehow or another I could n't make up my mind to get up in time, as I cut prayers." Here he tore a page off an old Crimson and lit his pipe again...
...oared crews under the new regime have rowed two races of two miles and one of three miles. Comparing the time made in the first and last race we find a difference of only three seconds; the winning crew last fall making the distance in 13 min. 34 1/2 sec., and this fall in 13 min. 31 1/2 sec. But this slight improvement in time is not to be looked upon as insignificant, for in comparing these results there are considerations other than the mere marking of watches to be taken into account. Time in a race is purely relative...
...feeling for the time, which was only dispelled by the favorable result of the game, the appearance of the groaning tables, and the good-nature of the vanquished hosts. Now we hope that the rules will be clearly understood once for all, and that the players will not make the decisions and points of the match the pretext for any jealousy and ill-will which may exist between Harvard and Yale, and is such a favorite and inexhaustible theme for the newspaper reporters all over the country...