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...also that, independently of that, they are able to obtain more result from their exertions than the ancients. The men of the present day, we know, are larger than they were in bygone years, and therefore they should be more powerful; for it is an acknowledged axiom in sport that, other things being equal, "a big one will always beat the little one." - Nineteenth Century...
Since "records" have been registered with methodical exactitude it has been found, as was only likely, that every now and again some athlete has been able to surpass what has been done before in the various branches of sport. Particularly has this been the case in recent years, but the last one has been the most remarkable for the numerous "records" which have been cut. Week after week some fresh achievement has been accomplished, and there is scarcely a single branch of athletics in which one or more have not been registered. This has been so in every description...
...ball and any hard out-door exercise. It is the general law of training clearly put before the reader. "The sum and substance of the whole thing," writes Captain Ward, "is that a base-ball player must recognize the fact that base-ball is a business, not simply a sport." And although college athletics are not looked upon as a business, yet the idea in Captain Ward's words is true of the work of any 'Varsity team, That is, college athletics have been carried to such a point that unless continuous hard and intelligent work be kept in each...
Track athletics, strange to say, have taken a temporary boom, in view of the fact that the management have secured the huge skating rink for practice. The enthusiasts in this branch of sport, we are sorry to record, are mighty scarce in Princeton. Our record has degenerated, until now we are at the very bottom of the list of colleges. This fact, in addition to the cold water thrown on field sports by the supporters of base-ball and lacrosse, makes doubly difficult the effort to revivify the interest in the sport. We have no men of great promise...
...been such that at times we have felt as injured parties generally do - that we have had the worst of several disputes, and for our voice in the matter we think Yale does not wish to complicate herself in any more schemes which possibly may result to her disadvantage. Sport is broad, and the fairness and impartiality which inspires other branches of our greater universities should be cultivated in the athletic department as well...