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...There are 156 in our class and 1,066 in the whole college here. Our class, '84, is divided in four divisions on 'stand.' They put me in the third division because I was a new student. Their rule is to start a new man down low, and let him work up. We have physics, chemistry, Chaucer, and beginning German; French is my optional. . . . There are five things in which a man must excel here to be highly thought of: Boating, foot-ball, baseball, literary ability, or scholarship. A man that don't count in any one of these...
...origin of cane rushes, perhaps, lies in the old faculty rule, once existing at some of our colleges, forbidding freshmen to carry canes. Now the tables are completely turned, and sometimes, as recently at Williams, the authorities especially encourage freshmen to carry canes...
...action of the new rule at Harvard, regarding professional trainers, will dispense with the services of Mr. James Robinson, who has had charge of the Athletic Association of that college for several years past. Mr. Robinson proposes making a short visit to friends in England, and upon his return will probably accept a call from Yale. - [Boston Herald...
...every student. Every one knows that little is accomplished by holding recitations on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving: but many students are kept in Cambridge on the holiday by unwillingness to cut recitations and lectures on those days. The number of students who take advantage of the rule regarding voluntary attendance is so large that many of the instructors feel bound to repeat their lectures in the following week, and thus the men, who, from over-conscientiousness or other reasons, have been unwilling to cut, in the end gain nothing by their faithfulness to their work. The petition...
...text of the most important additions and amendments to the foot-ball rules adopted at the recent convention in New York is as follows: "The referee shall call the game when he considers it too dark to continue play. Four touch-downs shall take precedence over a goal kicked from the field. The decision of whether a side has made five or lost ten yards shall be left to the discretion of the referee. The referee shall disqualify a player whom he has twice warned for violation of the rule relating to tripping and foul tackling...