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Among the letters to the New York sporting papers on the subject of the Yale-Princeton game was one from W. H. Manning, '82, one of Harvard's finest players...
Whatever may be the opinions of the Base Ball Association of the subject, it seems to us that it would increase the interest in their games if they followed the lead of the National Base Ball League, and abolished the foul bound catch. The tendency in the game of base ball during the past few years has been for the fielding and pitching to increase in a marked manner out of all proportion to the increase in the ability of the batsman to hit the ball. It is becoming quite a veriety in a well played game...
...York paper, an authority on the subject, said well when it advocated the abolition of the objectionable rules in these words: "Why this boyish rule is maintained is a mystery. Twenty years ago the same puerile arguments now used in advocacy of the foul-bound catch were urged in defense of the catch on the bound of a fair ball, and with just as much reason. If we are to help the batting, we ought to do away with a style of catch that restricts batting. It is bad enough as it is that a batsman should...
...interest in the general subject of political philosophy among Americans, has always been of the liveliest sort. It is undeniable, however, that there is, in proportion to this interest, a noticeably small amount of definite knowledge and hence of definite thinking on this subject among both the great public, and among men of broad education. In a practical way, instruction in the actual status of political systems is fairly adequate in this country. Just as in England, it has been said, interest attaches more to the history of the English constitution as a growing political system, so in the United...
...Constitutional Questions in English and American History. There is also a special seminar in American Finance and in methods of Local Government in Europe and America. In Economic Science there are six courses including one on the History of Industrial Society and on Taxation (by Judge Cooley). The subject of Political Ethics embraces courses on the Theory of Rights by Judge Cooley, on the Philosophy of Government (views of Aristotle, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hegel, Spencer, Mulford, etc.,) and the History of Political Theories. There are also courses on International Law and History of Treaties, on American Constitutional Law, on Local Administrative...