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...only an admirable player, but he dignified the game by infusing into it skill, strategy and generalship surprising those unacquainted with the facts. Many a glorious victory for the blue has been planned as carefully and thoroughly as a general plans a campaign. The second reason, somewhat akin to the first, is found in the hearty co-operation of old foot-ball players among the alumni and their willingness to coach the team toward the end of the season, even at some sacrifice of business or professional interests...
...strength and beautiful daring, with very few and very slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...
...sufficient number has signed for the boat Wednesday night, the arrangements will be made. Unless many more intend to return Thursday night, the rates will be somewhat higher. If more than twenty-five men signify their intention of returning on a certain night, a reduced rate will be obtained. Reduced rates will be obtained for Sunday night 11 o'clock sleeper...
Princeton without Dr. McCosh will be a good deal like the play of "Hamlet" with Hamlet in the adjoining county. This smile is somewhat threadbare, but it just fits the case.- N. Y. World...
...distinct as the impression which different classes make on the minds of their instructors or fellow students. The class individuality asserts itself, and we can hope to get the general type only when a co-composite of many class composites has been made, and this will then be perhaps somewhat untrue, for I suspect that the type of senior in our American colleges is slowly changing. Would the composites of the same class in different colleges be identical? Many will probably be surprised at the diversity of those senior portraits. Although we are not justified in taking any of these...