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...Coffin has based all his arguments on statistics of games played by Yale, Princeton and University teams. Such proof is not conclusive, for at present these three colleges are not the best in the country. The records of other teams must be considered...
...spiritism. Professor G. Stanley Hall is President of Clark university and has devoted his life to the scientific study of the mind. Unlike so many who are antagonistic to spiritism, he does not rail against mediums and spirit-rappings in genera. but clearly shows that as yet no sound proof of the existence of an after-life through spirits has been demonstrated. Every one of the physical phenomena of spiritism has been reproduced, naturally, in daylight, by magicians and sleight-of-hand artists...
...affairs is deplorable, because it is not inevitable. There is at present manifest in the University a very considerable interest in intellectual things. The many discussion groups, the small informal gatherings for an exchange of ideas, the numerous outside speakers who are brought here formally or informally, give abundant proof that students are interested in other things than athletics or society. And when men who have now no apparent interest in their studies reach the law school, they talk "shop" from morning to night...
Moreover, the support which the Glee Club has already received this year and their extensive plans for a trip in the spring are proof that undergraduates are both willing to participate in and listen to good music. Never before has the Glee Club had so many members. They have shown courage in breaking away from old traditions, and, in offering better music, have set the pace for other colleges of the country...
That the University has lost the three games they have taken part in is no proof of their inferiority, inasmuch as they have been matched against the best of the American and Canadian teams. The sextet has played good hockey from start to finish, but the teams against them had too many men of individual brilliancy...