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...some blood must be spilled if the sparring is at all hard, and "posing matches" do not seem to be held in high favor among the undergraduates here at Harvard, if one may judge from the current conversations at the meeting. The most sensible plan seems to be to put all the sparring on the first day when no ladies are present, and when it would not be as much out of place as it certainly is now. Such a change, we feel sure, would meet with the approbation of all, and we commend it to the consideration...
...methods that the death of an animal so killed is much pleasanter than that of the animal exposed to the vicissitudes of nature. In the natural state the weak are exposed to the attacks of the strong, and often are subjected to torment and mutilation before being put to death...
...boats, and yet Davis, the man who coached them, is considered the best professional trainer in the country. This proves conclusively two important facts: First, that professional coaches will not do for college oarsmen. Secondly, that the English stroke is by far the best known. Davis' idea was to put his men into a boat in haphazard style and tell them to pull just as hard as they could. No attention whatever was paid to the position of the body. Physical power was the sole object looked for. His principle was that the human system does not tire...
...down to the river every afternoon. The University crew certainly gives promise of great hopes of success when they come to be matched against Columbia and Yale in the latter part of June. Two months more of steady work ought to produce as fine a crew as Harvard ever put upon the water...
Some experiments were recently tried by O'Rouke and White of the Buffalo club with the new catcher's protection, which is a flat rubber case, filled up with air and worn over the chest and abdomen. O'Rouke put the protector on and claims that he could not fell a ball thrown by White at a distance of ten feet...