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...hoped that the measures taken at the last yard concert, to keep the mucker element at a proper distance, are but the beginnings of an action still more stringent and effective. A little energy and firmness, would very soon teach the objectionable young mucker that his place is not in the yard, and his task not to make himself as disagreeable, and everybody else as uncomfortable, as possible. Perhaps a good strong policeman, with a stronger "billy," would be as effective as anything else. But a policeman could not attain complete success, if he had not the co-operation...
...that the college grounds are reserved for the students alone to practise upon, and are not offered by the university as a supplement to the Cambridge common. We hope this rather free use of private property will be stopped by the present measures. If, however, these are unsuccessful, more stringent rules must be enforced...
...Harvard. We do not attach much credit to the story. Such a fact of course could be within the bounds of possibility, but we can see no reason why it should be considered probable. There is of course the chance that as the Harvard faculty grows narrower and more stringent in its ideas, the corporation will become more liberal and broad-minded,-that while the one is engaged in hedging athletics round with impossible restrictions, the other may be drifting towards a progressive policy in chapel regulations...
...college matches, her men, although they may be no better men than ours, have a degree of confidence in themselves, a determination not to be disconcerted whatever happens, begotten by many hard games, which serve them most advantageously when they are in a tight place. With the stringent policy of our faculty concerning base-ball it would seem to be impossible for our nine to get practice of the kind which can only be obtained by matches with strong clubs...
...editorial in the Princetonian. It voices the opinions which a great many persons now hold in regard to the importance of the position of referee in a Rugby foot-ball game : "To those who have watched the development of the game in recent years, the inefficiency of the most stringent regulations governing the conduct of the players would have occasioned no surprise. The Harvard game, in New York, was only a practical illustration of the fact that rules will not make a player a gentleman, if he naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact of it is, there should...