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...another column we clip a letter from the Advertiser, in regard to the voluntary attendance at prayers and church, showing the position which many influential men are last taking on this subject. It has come to be regarded as only a question of time when the present rules in regard to attendance at prayers and at church must be abolished or changed in such a way as to give much more freedom for the students to follow their inclinations in such matters than they have at present. It seems to be a step in the right direction to find...
...additional argument was needed to show the disastrous effect of the anti-professional rule on our athletics, a decisive one has been given in the loss of both the Yale game and the Amherst game through Harvard's weakness at the bat. Our play in the field in both these games was all that could have been wished for; but it is folly to expect the nine to win games without being able to bat, and it is equal folly to expect a nine to be able to bat without any practice. Our nine enters the championship contest this year...
...course it is now too late in the season for any change in the rule against professionals to have any effect on our chances for this year; but it is essential for the success of the nine next year and for coming years that the rule should be repealed. And the sooner it is repealed the better; for the nine needs some encouragement to believe that it will not have to enter next year's contest handicapped as it is this...
...case of postponement of either or both of the first two games, Article VI., Section 2, of the American College Association constitution shall rule...
...English, and could be trusted to make a healthy use of their freedom; but political accidents have combined in an odd way to check all athletic tendencies among the youth of the State schools in France. Most of the lycees were in old time richly endowed schools under monastic rule; they had large playgrounds, and in those days French boys were adepts in all sorts of games. But when the church lands were confiscated in 1792 the great schools temporarily collapsed, and the revolutionary government, being in straits, sold the large playing fields. The mischief thus done could never...