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Centre and right have thus far been filled by substitutes. White plays centre-field and change pitcher. His pitching is effective though rather wild, but his batting is weak. Weak batting is also Keep's principal fault. He plays an exceptionally fine right field and is a good base runner...
...freshmen play their first Yale game on Saturday, May 19th, at New Haven. They will present an exceptionally strong team, having the services of Nichols, Allen and Smith. The playing of the team at the beginning of the year was rather weak, but has steadily improved, and at present they are playing a steady, hard batting game. Phillips has proved himself an efficient captain and plays a very steady game at second; he is a fair batter and good base runner. Kimball, at third, is a brilliant player, but on the whole plays rather carelessly; he has been improving steadily...
This year's nine is not a typical one for Yale. The men are light and youthful, more like an Amherst nine, if we may credit our informants. Unlike the usual Yale nine, the men step to the bat as if expecting to be hit rather than wanting to make a hit. - [Princetonian...
...raised on account of the air of professionalism which will be given to our athletes by the erection of a fence, is answered by mentioning the fact that the purpose of the fence is not to make money - although it might incidentally increase the amount of gate receipts - but rather to keep out the hordes of "muckers" who infest the outskirts of the field and make themselves disagreeable by the hoots and cries, and who at the end of every game rush on to the field in a body, cutting it up seriously and doing more damage...
...line of study, the elective system gives the opportunity which the required system refuses. This is the fundamental principle on which the elective system rests. It works to develop a man's individuality, believing that it will better for himself and for society that each man should be himself rather than that every one should be forced into a dull uniformity. The prescribed system, on the other hand, works on the principle that one shoe should be established by induction or inspiration or what not, and every foot turned and twisted and jammed...