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...Yale freshman take very little interest in their foot-ball team. Some days not more than two or three go out to practice. Unless they brace they will stand a very poor chance of beating Harvard. [New Haven Union...
...regulation and restraint upon college sports. Probably the best way this could be done would be to make athletic training a part of the curriculum. If a student were compelled to blister his hands with a pair of oars, or cripple his fingers with a hard base ball, or "stand up" before Prof. John L. Sullivan for a specified time every day, perhaps the fascination would wear off, and he might be induced to give some little time and a little thought to his studies. At any event, there would in this method be an absence of that wild excitement...
Evangelist.-"I am glad to say that I can stand up and confess that I am a sinner...
...wishes or the wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage and to remove the anomalous character of the proceeding is absurd. In everything else the college refuses to stand in loco parentis. In this matter it insists upon so standing. And yet here, even it fails in really occupying the position of parent in relation to the students. The custom (and possibly the wishes) of a large majority of the parents of the students is opposed to morning prayers, especially...
...track is progressing finely and we are promised the 'best track in America." This is capital, but with our new track we must have a grand stand suitable to it. According to the plans and specifications approved by the athletic committee of the faculty and shown, by the kindness of Prof. Norton, to a representative body of students and athletes last spring, such a grand stand would cost about $10,000. Enough money was raised before the summer vacation to level the field and to build the track and have perhaps $1000 to $2000 over. Now at least $8000 must...