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...some arrangement by which all association with professionals and more especially professional trainers in all branches of college athletics could be done away with. He says that the Harvard athletic committee did not intend from the first to have the game with Yale given up, but only officially to show that they discountenanced the game as then played, The game that Harvard played with Princeton was so rough as to disgust some of the alumni who subsequently brought so much pressure to bear upon the committee that they were obliged to publish their letter. He positively asserted that Yale...
...rates, for the cost of membership is frequently covered in two or three purchases. The management of the Cooperative certainly deserve the thanks of the members for the energetic and practical way in which they carry on the business, and it is only fair that these should show their appreciation by giving it, when possible, their patronage...
Then the feeling that from this eight, four would be selected to represent the University at Lake George would tend to increase the zeal and interest of the men. We believe that if the Boat Club authorities should decide upon such action, the college at large would show renewed interest in rowing and that increased subscriptions would flow in to cover the necessarily increased expenses of the club. Of course there may be objections to such a scheme, but if Yale can carry on such a system, it would seem strange that it could not flourish here, where we have...
...subject which gives in a pleasant way many curious facts. Perhaps that which strikes us first in reading it is the change in the manner of governing students; considering a student a man and not a child. Even as late as 1699 the college records at Cambridge, England, show that offenders were "wipt in the buttry" with a lash, though even here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch him," adding, "so did the last maystr and the best that he ever...
...Matthew Arnold vie with each other in the amount of space devoted to them in almost all of our exchanges. The Princetonian devotes most of its energies to foot-ball, with an occasional remark on our distinguished literary visitor, while some of our other exchanges reverse matters and show a literary spirit to predominate over the physical. [Brunonian...