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Football, as is ought to be pursued, is a healthy and invigorating exercise; but experience of the past has abundantly shown that the great Inter-Collegiate games fall little short of being prize fights. Accidents frequently occur, often serious; and ill feeling is engendered between colleges.[Argo...
This state of affairs, if correctly represented, no one can deny is truly demoralizing. We are not aware that as yet any satisfactory remedy for it has been suggested. Indeed, it is a very serious question whether in the nature of the case there is any remedy possible, and whether the marking system itself is not to blame for the results. That the marking system is in itself essentially unjust and impracticable in any liberal educational system is an opinion that is already largely held and steadily growing. Moreover, it is our opinion that the present form of the marking...
...darkness; but when there seems to be a convenient means of light near by unused, longer patience ceases to be a virtue. With trifling trouble the lamp could be lighted every evening, and thus give great satisfaction to the students using that entrance, and lessen the liability of serious falls in icy weather...
...Yale News of Friday : "There appeared in this morning's paper a letter from the chairman of the committee on athletics, forbidding the Harvard eleven from carrying out an arrangement with Yale to play a match game on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day. This action will cause serious loss, financial and otherwise. In the first place the faculty force the Harvard management to break a definite verbal agreement entered into by representatives of the two colleges acting through the Yale foot-ball president, with the consent of the Harvard president, Mr. Clark, and the manager of the polo grounds...
...that on the contrary the spirit of sharpers and of roughs has to be guarded against. The committee believe that the games hotly played under these rules have already begun to degenerate from a manly, if rough, sport into brutal and dangerous contest. They regard this as a serious misfortune in the interest of the game, which if played in a gentlemanly spirit may be one of the most useful college sports as a means of physical development. They regret that they did not give earlier attention to the character of these rules, and thus earlier come to the conclusion...