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...hazardous as the Committee seem to think. Let them have half the student representation elected by the more important student organizations and the other half appointed by the Committee after consulting a few undergraduates; let the topics chosen at first be of not too exciting a kind; let some rule of re-invitation be adopted by which the Committee shall be able to weed out the more unreasonable,-and we predict that the thing will go along smoothly and quietly, until in the course of a year or two the students will be educated up to the thing, will grow...
...freedom in passing. This method would evidently increase the opportunities for scientific kicking, running and passing, and on the other hand would greatly diminish the chances for blocking and the display of weight and brute strength. Again, the present manner of disqualification is practically a premium on violating the rule, as it permits a player to be offside twice with impunity. To obviate this a single violation should disqualify the offender...
...events. But probably the government cannot go much farther in its course, at least with success. It has already reached the point which has proved fatal to most despotisms, and there seems to be no reason for expecting the government of the Czars to prove the exception to the rule...
...York paper, an authority on the subject, said well when it advocated the abolition of the objectionable rules in these words: "Why this boyish rule is maintained is a mystery. Twenty years ago the same puerile arguments now used in advocacy of the foul-bound catch were urged in defense of the catch on the bound of a fair ball, and with just as much reason. If we are to help the batting, we ought to do away with a style of catch that restricts batting. It is bad enough as it is that a batsman should...
Several correspondents have urged us to make a final appeal to the faculty, or a systematic attack on the janitor, for more heat and less darkness in the chapel. It is, unfortunately, too early to insert our stereotyped editorial on heating the chapel, as there is a rule of the paper which forbids its use oftener than once a month. We, therefore, pass over the old grievance this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore...