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...athletic contests. The growing familiarity of each with the other has therefore revealed wide differences not only in the technical features of various events, but in the prevailing spirit of sportsmanship as well. "Granted, the common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century architecture, overgrown with ivy." In a word, English athletics have none of that bitterness too often seen here...
...Freshmen in particular, who have any ability in playing chess are urged to enter the tournament, and special opportunities will be offered to anyone who shows promise of becoming a good player. The four men getting the highest average in the fall tournament will represent the University in the intercollegiate tournament; and the first ten men will be representatives in the matches with Yale, University of California, and the less important matches. The last man of these ten may at any time be challenged by another member of the club, and, if beaten, must resign his place to his opponent...
...regular routine of work has been carried on at the Harvard Observatory during the summer, and little of particular interest has occurred. The principal event has been the photographing of the spectrum of chain lightning by means of a spectroscope and large telescope attached to a camera. Several of these photographs turned out very well, and are probably the first successful ones of the kind ever taken...
...squad has taken light dumb-bell and the usual practice in falling the ball. After this, the men have divided into linemen, ends and The linemen have had special in starting and lunging, under Captain Campbell has coached on going down the field under kick Coach Reid has given particular to the backs in their work of and catching punts. From the practice will be advanced a every day in preparation for the game, which will be played next...
With a keen eye for situtation and a good judgment for details, Mr. Mitchell builds up a very well constructed play; but in conception and treatment of character he often fails so notably that his drama loses much of its ethical and aesthetic value. Becky, in particular, whom Thackeray made a perfectly animate literary creation, as far beyond analysis as a living woman, becomes in the play a bundle of catalogued qualities tied together with a cord...