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"Any college man must feel that he would rather play against a graduate - a man who for four years had lived a college life, had become imbued with the college spirit, had learned to look at matters from the collegian's standpoint - than to play against a man who was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Camp on College Sports. | 2/10/1893 | See Source »

THE appointments of President Francis Walker of the Institute of Technology as orator, and of Mr. Morris Thompson as poet, of the Phi Beta Kappa exercises for this year, are very satisfactory. President Walker is too well known to need any words of explanation, and his scholarly attainments admirably fit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1893 | See Source »

It is a pleasure to be able for once to say that a number of the Advocate is up to its proper standard; the last few issues have made it seem as if perhaps the standard of the Advocate had permanently fallen, but with the issue of today comes a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 2/8/1893 | See Source »

Before such audiences John Dryden made his fame or, perhaps better won his popularity. His plays at first very poor, gradually grew better until finally he captured the London court, and henceforth his position was secure. Dryden was hardly a man of lofty ideals, and he much preferred the popularity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on Dryden. | 2/7/1893 | See Source »

But the objection to the rule limiting the use of the wedge is the difficulty of laying down a definition which shall cover the "wedge" and "wedge plays" without leaving a loop-hole for evading the rule. The rule we should provide would combine with the present five yards and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wedge in Football. | 2/7/1893 | See Source »