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...faculties should determine to hold strictly to this customary ruling our crew would find itself deprived of the services of their present efficient coach, and our faculty would be unable to prevent it if the others made up their minds on the point. This only goes to show in what a careless manner very much of the new scheme was drawn up in. Constant bickerings and quarrels or more disastrous compromises are very likely to ensue as the work of the supervisory committee when any college or clique of colleges find it for their advantage to try and make headway...
...resolutions recently passed have this tendency? We think not, and in order to show wherein they fail, we shall first consider them separately, and then set forth their effect on the various athletic sports in college...
...eyes, are perfect exhibitions of those objects. In the midst of the tumultuous city, here all is stillness and solitude, where medical science, taking her pupils by the hand, leads them into her secret chambers, unfolding the intricacies of every department. An Apollo Belvedere and a Venus de Medici show in one room imitations in plaster cast and in marble, models of art and of the just and fairest proportions of the human form...
...quite untenable. This opinion is also expressed by the Post. "But there is a wide difference," it continues, "between the exercise in each college of a general supervisory power over sports, and the attempt to establish an inter-collegiate code, as a glance at the resolutions themselves will show. They bring out very distinctly, the moment we examine them in detail, the fact that there is so great a dissimilarity, first, in the circumstances of the colleges, and second, in the character of the sports themselves, that any attempt to make up such a code will be attended with enormous...
...ball from Yale, and, becoming serious, said in a national sense there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer together, but go on each endeavoring to show its own system to be the best, for that meant progress in education...