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...other hand men among the students who have played foot ball and who understand the game, claim that changes can be made whereby the "brutal" and "demoralizing" features, and also much of the danger of the game can be done away with. It is also claimed that the "prevailing spirit" among the students is in favor of such changes, and that there is a very strong chance that such changes can be carried through the Intercollegiate foot ball convention. These opinions, as will be seen, are directly opposed to the assertion of the Committee. Who, I ask, is more likely...
...crews, I wish to call attention to what seems to me to be strange inconsistency on the part of the Committee. Last year, when the question of having a paid director of field athletic sports was under discussion, the Athletic Committee of the Faculty announced, as I understand the matter, that if only a man like Col. Bancroft could be found to take charge of our field athletics, the faculty would be only too glad to appoint such a man. Thus, a year ago, Col. Bancroft was held up to us by the Athletic Committee as almost an ideal instructor...
...Cricket Association has given its consent to the Base Ball Association to use the cricket cap as a part of their nine uniform. We understand also that the Lacrosse Association has applied for permission, and we see no reason why it should not be adopted as a University cap for all University teams. The officers of the associations are complaining bitterly at the way in which individuals are promiscuously wearing the Cricket cap, and intend to adopt means to stop it. We do not see any reason why an individual should wear the cap, which is part of a University...
Harper Brothers announce a new book, "Mothers in Council." It is not, we understand a Princeton Faculty meeting.-(Yale Record...
...player of average brains cannot learn in six weeks to takle low, when he knows that he would thereby almost double the effectiveness of his play, we, in our ignorance, cannot see. Nor do we see why a Harvard captain and foot ball committee cannot give their men to understand that they have got to do as they are told, and play as they are told, at the risk of not getting on the team,-as well as the foot ball powers of Yale or Princeton, a Yale or Princeton eleven will complete alter their method of play...