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There is a spy in camp. The law school harbors him in the shape of a Yale graduate, who spends the time unoccupied by pig's skins in watching the movements of our eleven and telegraphs the "points" down to New Haven...
...Fletcher played a good game right through, and in the second half the playing of the rush line was decidedly more encouraging. The conclusion one would draw from the game as a whole is, that if the other side gets rattled Harvard can take advantage of it in great shape; but that if the other side plays a steady game, we have yet very much to learn before we can do much against them. There was not much passing done throughout the game, and most of it was poor. Occasionally there was some good passing, but very rarely. During...
...poorness of the grounds and the lack of college support, both by players and by money. The material from which the team had to be chosen was fresh, as few men play cricket before coming to college, so that great practice was necessary to bring them into shape. Many good players enter college next year. With enough funds the club can then go ahead and form an eleven which will do the college credit. But the one necessary thing is support from the college, and especially money...
...very noticeable that the Yale News is at present pursuing the policy - which is the policy of their athletic organization - of using undue persuasion in the shape of lavish compliment, offers of high advancement, donations of old shells and so forth, to make proselytes for their athletic teams among the various schools. It is a very well known fact that the St. Paul's club and other clubs at Yale are deliberately formed for this purpose, and that graduates of the different schools are sent to make converts of the most valuable athletes left in them. Now, although Yale...
...oval skull is usually considered the ideal in shape. A sharp skull usually marks a low mental activity, although this is not always the case. Intellect depends only in part on the size of the brain. Portions of the brain have been lost without loss of activity. The "American Crowbar Case" is the most famous, when a bar 1 1-2 inches in diameter, and 3 feet long was shot in blasting through a man's head, entering in the jaw and coming out in the forward part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting...