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...progress of the University team this year has been far from encouraging. Of the six games played three have been won and three lost. The first game with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was won by the score of 22 to 20, only after two extra periods had been played. The two following games were lost to Wesleyan and Holy Cross by the scores of 31 to 6 and 20 to 16 respectively. The team then won from Princeton in a poorly played game, by the score of 16 to 13 and defeated Tufts, 20 to 11, but lost...
...these reasons the present game is infinitely more interesting to the players, to the spectators, (who can now see the progress of the play so much better) and to the coaches, who have so much more scope for strategy. The principal changes in the rules that have brought about these benefits are the ten-yard rule, the limiting of number of men behind the line, the onside kick, and the forward pass...
...University basketball team will play Princeton this evening at 8 o'clock in the Gymnasium in the fourth game of its schedule. The Princeton team this year contains four members of last year's team and although defeated by Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, has shown steady progress and has defeated Fordham and Brown. Captain Halliday and Ryan are considered two of the strongest players in the intercollegiate league. The team has been practicing longer than Harvard and the team-work is more developed...
...offer the strongest inspirations of our academic life are those to whom America must look for the advancement of its scholarship. But we think that both the Nation and Mr. Wister, in urging their point, have neglected the position of the undergraduate. Their ideal is that of progress in unexplored regions of literature, art and science. Ours is the development of "second-string" men, who, while profiting themselves by the words of eminent authorities, will pave the way for a gradual improvement in real scholarship. To our undeveloped minds this ideal seems nobler than devotion to original research, and until...
...work of the Freshmen last night was very poor, the practice being characterized by rough individual playing. The progress of the team is retarded by lack of material, and by the failure of the men to report regularly for practice...