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...communication published yesterday echoes our sentiments upon the question of playing with professionals. We cannot agree with the ideas advanced by the correspondent of the Advocate, and we think that such an opinion can only be held by men who at best obtain but a superficial view of college life and practices. It is most undeniably false that our nine, in wishing to practice with professional teams, is influenced by a desire to learn "tricks" and unfair points to be employed against Yale and Princeton, unless learning how to play base-ball in a scientific manner can be called...
...regard to the playing rules of the association foot-ball game: "There is no immediate prospect that the association game will be adopted by the Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association. Our present game is made up of the best points of both Rugby and association foot-ball, and I think it unsurpassed by either. We take the team of eleven men and the rushing from Rugby, the goals, touchline and kicking from the association rules, and, besides, we have added and improved wherever we have found it necessary. Our present rules are, therefore, very nearly perfect...
...Mental Qualities of the Athlete." is an admirable treatment of the subject. The writer attributes the success of certain men in athletics to the fact that there is inborn in them a certain impulse which tells them the right thing at the right time. It is a peculiarity, he thinks, of the nervous organization. Training perfects the action of this impulse. Mr. Dudley further attempts to prove that the mental training of the athlete is peculiarly fitted for training the student for the business of life, but we think that he is attributing to it something which...
...Glance at the Political Parties" is an admirable exposition of the principles of the two great political parties since 1790. We think; however, that the writer has been somewhat too partisan in his treatment of the subject...
...Harvard is generously equipped with scholarships which benevolent people have contributed for the assistance of needy students. Of more than seven hundred undergraduates probably over one half need, or think they need, pecuniary assistance. These scholarships are assigned upon the basis of the student's percentages appearing on the annual rank list. In such a large college the competition is necessarily great. Those who have been fitted at the Harvard preparatory schools of the Eastern States generally have the advantage from the start. Scholarships being regarded as prizes for high marks are often eagerly sought after whether needed...