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...play. There was a vague looseness which accompanied every rush. Each man seemed to strike out for himself regardless of his fellow-players. This was especially true of the backs, whose interference and blocking off were most ragged. They received little support from the linemen, as their time was often occupied in holding their opponents, for which Harvard paid the penalty of ten yards time and again...
...Yale an election to the "Lit." is regarded as one of the greater honors of the college course, and this fact the freshman is made to realize soon after he begins his life there. At Harvard it is too often the case that a man reaches his junior year before he begins to appreciate the distinctly favorable light in which our literary magazine appears when compared with that of any other college...
...several years many men prominently connected with the subject of physical training have been declaring that college football teams suffer far more often from the demoralizing effects of over-training than from any greenness due to insufficient work. Time and time again, it is claimed, players have sustained both mental and physical injury from the excessive amount of hard work to which they have been subjected...
...teacher was of no use without a pupil. The relation between them must be cordial. Among the students a great deal of good could be done by a man without his being conscious of it. The kindly word, the helpful act towards one less fortunately placed would often strengthen him, and save him from a terrible temptation...
...poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained another sense and had ourselves a share in the sorcery that is practiced on us. The words of our mother tongue have been worn smooth by so often rubbing against our lips or minds, while the alien word has all the subtle emphasis and beauty of some new-minted coin of ancient Syracuse. In our critical estimates we should be on our guard against this charm...