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...very desirable that a large number of students attend the meeting of Mott Haven candidates this evening and begin training for the track team. There is greater need than ever before for a large number of candidates, as Mr. Morrison shows in a communication on another page. The reasons for the need the communication clearly points...
...addition to the urgent need of many candidates to develop a winning team, assurances of personal advantage of pleasure to those who train is necessary to bring them out, many such assurances can be given. There are many vacancies on the team to be filled and it often happens that men without any previous training and with apparently little ability develop in a single season into runners sure of a place on the team...
...objections to the scrimmage itself have little weight. The flowers, particularly the class figures, should perhaps be so lowered that the struggle need not be so violent and that "concerted action" might not be necessary. But that the scrimmage is brutal, that football clothes should not be worn, and so practically that the old scrimmage should develop into a formal presentation to each Senior of a boutenniere, is absurd. A man may take part in the scrimmage without losing dignity or without being brutal or ungentlemanly...
...entertainments for pleasure. Then again the senior's time is so taken up with a multitude of friends dependent upon him for everything that he has no opportunity to enjoy himself. It is evident that there are about fifteen girls to every man and this seems to show the need of more time so that the fellows could give more attention to each of their guests...
...keen wit. There was nothing commonplace about him. His aspect, bearing, and expression were distinguished by a strongly marked originality and simplicity which added a special charm to his intercourses, and gave a peculiar flavor to his pervasive humor. His nature was frank and open, and in case of need his opinions were uttered with great vigor and certainty; but he shrank from display and avoided public distinctions. He was totally free from self-conceit...