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...show that the average length of life of boating men is greater than that of others. The scholarship of athletes is not necessarily poor, as is shown by the example of the '70 nine, which averaged over seventy percent. Moreover athletic training gives a man self-reliance, perseverance and "push." Athletics acts as a safety valve for some who would otherwise waste their energies in less laudable pursuits...
...Greek department seems to be determined to keep its well-earned reputation for push and energy, which has made it so popular in the past. The action of Prof. White in offering to the students of his course one of the retiring rooms in Sever as a reading room and study, must meet with the approval of every student who has suffered from the numerous inconveniences which necessarily attach to the library, however excellent the management of that institution. Where a large crowd frequent one room, as is the case with the library, there must be more or less noise...
...fielders on both sides crowd around him in a mob and each side endeavors to get a chance to kick the ball out of the scrimmage, and the result is that a pretty rough time occurs, the players who are defending the holder of the ball striving to push the opposing fielders back, while the latter endeavor to drive the former from their protection of the player having the ball, the latter being frequently a badly placed "under man in the fight." In the American inter-collegiate rules, "scrimmage" leads to the placing of the ball, followed by an effort...
...Harvard, '86," says the Yale News, "is an enthusiastic and energetic class. Their athletic meeting was a great success, and their pluck and push is bound to prove very valuable to the athletic interests of our great rival. Let Yale, '86, take notice, and do every thing in her power to aid in maintaining our present high rank." Praise, we feel sure, that the freshmen have very deservedly won. May their exertions not falter until success in every field has crowned their efforts, and through their aid the championship in athletic sports, so long withheld from Harvard, may be reclaimed...
...Yale; Mr. Cabot, Harvard; Messrs. Peace and Morgan, Princeton; Messrs. Morgan and Fisburn, Columbia. The games with Yale were settled upon as follows: Yale vs. Columbia, Nov. 18, at New Haven; Harvard vs. Yale. Nov. 22, at Cambridge; Princeton vs. Yale, Thanksgiving day at Polo Grounds. Princeton tried to push a motion through the convention to restrict the number of rushers in a scrimmage to six of each team, and not to allow the half-backs to come nearer the rusher-line than ten yards, when the ball was to be snapped back. The rules were not materially tampered with...