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...would be unwise, in our opinion, not to allow a substitute to take the place of a dismissed player. It would be better to make it an individual matter than to have the team suffer for the rowdyism of one player. For under a new code of this sort, no gentleman could be betrayed into conduct unworthy his name. We would not, however, favor an increased severity in the punishment for off-side play. In our judgment, a player should be warned three times before he can be disqualified for off-side play. There is such a thing...
...November number of the Beta Theta Pi magazine, contains an article on Harvard, written by Mr. H. W. Winkley, a graduate of the class of '81. While an article of this sort written for the information of those who are utterly unacquainted with the college is always more or less in the nature of a guide book, still it is interesting to note at times what impressions a graduate has formed of his own college and also what things strike him as peculiarly characteristic of the college and worthy of mention...
...tells a Boston journalist that he does not think it fair that the college should be censured for the occasional public disorder of some of the young fellows studying there. He states what is doubtless the fact, that there are only a few of the "men" given to this sort of thing, and that their conduct ought not to be made to reflect upon the entire university. And he has no little justice upon his side. The world is quick to adverse criticism upon people and things, but it is not always as prompt as it might be to render...
Thirdly, that a professional is demoralizing to the men's moral character Considering that the faculty pay no attention to the morals of the students and plan no restraint of any sort upon them this reason seems ludicrous...
...much for the English system, which has been held by President Porter to be better than our own in several respects. As to the result of the system Canon Farrar goes on to say : "This is the sort of 'kelp and brick dust' used to polish the cogs of their mental machinery ! And when, for a good decade of human life, and those its most invaluable years, a boy has stumbled on this dreadful mill-round, without progressing a single step, and is plucked at his matriculation for Latin prose, we flatter ourselves, forsooth, that we have been giving...