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...them have had considerable boating experience, and those who have not rowed much have good records in general athletics. All are in active training, and they are apparently imbued with the determination to make their crew the best one produced by any freshman class. Every candidate is supposed to pull two hundred strokes on the hydraulic rowing apparatus, besides running and using the chest weights and Indian clubs. Every man attends faithfully to his allotted duties, and the men, as a whole, are coached by Gill, '89, who has had two years experience on the 'Varsity. He is a good...
...open his path by turning away from one another at the instant he comes, the abuse of such tactics is wrong, and it never is, and never can be, good foot-ball to not only push and drag rushers out of the way, but even to butt, seize and pull to one side ends and halves who are running across to tackle. It is no exaggeration to say that this is, even now, not the exception, but almost the custom, in spite of the rulings of the umpires. In fact, these very men who should have stopped this have ruled...
...indulged in first by the light-weights, then by the middle-weights, and lastly by the heavy-weights. After each of these contests, the victorious man is elevated to the shoulders of his classmates, but as the other side do their best to prevent this, he is soon pulled down. Then follows the rush proper. The freshmen take the western part of the field and the sophomores the eastern, each side calling its class numerals to aid in getting its men together. The classes then form in opposing columns at some little distance from each other. Each man locks arms...
...less kind and courteous would be ceaselessly wrangling and bitterly jealous, if called to struggle a these do for their share of the college income; while each department, each scientific school, the gymnasium, the library, get but part of what they need, and each is just able to pull through the year and not run in debt. This only means that the life of the school is grandly vigorous. Its various departments beset the sorely tried president and treasurer with the appetites of growing boys. But that appetite shows that the family resources are increasing, and that the college loaf...
...which he points out very clearly certain evils that are corrupting our athletics. We are glad to read Mr. Wendell's article, not only for its merits, but because it is a step in the right direction, an approach towards the time when the graduates and undergraduates will pull together, and then there shall be no half-hearted support of athletics...