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...Saturday evening it was announced that the Athletic Committee, seeing no reason for departing from the rule of having only undergraduates to be captains of the 'varsity athletic teams, had refused to confirm the re-election of B. G. Waters '94, as captain of the football eleven...
...noticeable that Shakespeare's royal personages are as a rule less happy than his lower characters, and it seems strange that he should have dared to point out all the unhappiness and dishonor and illegality of their reigns. It must be remembered in explanation that his plays were written and acted at a time of England's greatest prosperity, when they gained rather than lost by the dark contrast they presented...
...student to be on a Yale team for more than four years, the time on a team of another college to be counted in the four years, but the year of probation, as provided in rule 3, to be excluded, and also any year lost by sickness...
...beyond question that men of little intelligence and no conscientiousness drift into parties, and that many men of high character are known as indepenpents, but the question to be discussed is not whether partisans or independents are as a rule better men, but whether, given the man, he can find a better use for his energy in connection with a party or independent...
...Everyone has the greatest confidence in Wiggin's ability to take hold of the present situation in a business like way, and he may be sure of the heartiest support. Of the undergraduate principle, there is practically nothing to be said against it. Graduate students have not, as a rule, the time to give to athletics which the captaincy of a team demands. Even if they had time it is much better that the captains of the teams should come from the college, for the college is the real centre of the athletic activity. We look upon this decision...