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...sporting papers have unanimously condemned the recent action of the Athletic Committee as "most untimely...
...those interested in base-ball can not but feel encouraged at the recent decision of the committee in regard to the nine. It seems very probable that the nine will be allowed a professional coach, and we trust that an early final decision will be given by the committee that the nine management may have ample time to secure the services of a good man. We do not know when the prospects of the nine have been brighter, for only one of last year's players has left college, and the nine will go upon the field in the spring...
Although we still deprecate the recent action of our faculty, it is only on account of their bad taste in the selection of the time for their declaration. In the main point at issue,-the improving of the character of the game,-we entirely agree with the faculty, and feel that some radical change is necessary. We emphatically stated our position last year on the style of play, which was first given its name of Yaleism by one of our correspondents, and we hold the same position this year. Foot-ball with all its roughness can be made a gentlemanly...
Princeton, as well as Harvard, will probably insist on essential modifications of the public opinion, may be brought to the same point of view. However much gratitude we may feel to Yale for her recent courtesy, we must not forget that it is she, who, by her numerous "improvements" of which she so proudly boasts, has brought the game to be what it is, and has given a name to the present style of game...
...recent number of the Gentleman's Magazine contains an article on the subject which gives in a pleasant way many curious facts. Perhaps that which strikes us first in reading it is the change in the manner of governing students; considering a student a man and not a child. Even as late as 1699 the college records at Cambridge, England, show that offenders were "wipt in the buttry" with a lash, though even here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch...