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...members are often ignorant of the actual qualifications of the men on whom they vote. The election of the five additional members is to be entirely in the hands of the undergraduates. At present the graduate Society, which often has little to go on expect the academic records, can prevent the election of a man considered suitable by the immediate members...
...rules forbidding a man to run with the ball or to hold it in his possession any length of time prevent all roughness, but there is none of the concentrated attack that marks association football, basket-ball or hockey. Dr. Sargent has as yet given the game no name...
...committee declared that the rule preventing hurdling is intended to apply only to the man carrying the ball, and was passed to prevent a dangerous play. It is intended to allow hurdling in the line, stepping over a prostrate player, even though both feet of the runner be momentarily off the ground at the same time...
...section under rule 11, providing that no players on the side which has the ball shall be in motion at the moment when the ball is put into play, is construed to mean that this will not prevent a player from running backward from the scrimmage line toward his own goal line...
...hilarity, but of reckless dissipation. "The Philosophy of Horatio" is almost well enough done to be justifiable: but "A Fake Play" has the fundamental weakness of being didactic without being clear. The third prose article, "Tactics for Teas," is amusing and entirely harmless; but it is too slight to prevent the prose of the number from conveying a general impression of murky disaster and gloom...