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...gesture with a lightness of touch that rivaled even Nijinsky, the famous Russian cheer leader. I have seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
...great majority of people have to compile, to perfect, or to work out the ideas or acts of the pioneers. But there are always people who might be pioneers if they exerted the will, or if circumstances opened the way. The adventurers who mean progress are coming more and more from the colleges. Hence humanity and progress are calling to youth, especially those aided by a college education, to become leaders. Michigan Daily...
...remains for the coaches and players to perfect the offensive machinery for its work against Brown and Yale. For several years past the Harvard coaches have decided to play a substitute team against whichever eleven it players on the Saturday preceding the Yale game. What the policy this year will be is still unsettle, although there is but very little to choose between the first eleven and the first-string substitutes. In fact, in all the games up to date, the substitutes have acquitted themselves fully as well as the first team...
...Princeton next Saturday. This week promises to be a stiff one for the Princeton team, for it will be necessary to work up a strange offense and improve their defence within the next four days. The work against North Carolina was not without flaws and Rush will strive to perfect his teamwork as much as possible within this week...
...shall be residents of the ward or town from which the applicant comes. . . . The witness is supposed to testify to the facts which he personally knows. . . . The laws requires that there be three men who have knowledge in the matter and you can see that it would be a perfect farce to say that everything testified there by one or two or three shall be based on what the applicant says, because you have not anything other than the young man's statement then. There must be three personalities there with personal knowledge of the things they affirm in order...