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...students have blamed the college authorities for not realizing how impossible it is for our nine to compete with nines of other colleges without good instruction, but we have done the same thing ourselves with regard to foot-ball. We must all of us, faculty and students, understand, once for all, that it is just as impossible for the average man to excel in athletics without instruction, as it would be for him to excel in his studies without instruction; and that it is just as absurd to expect an uncoached crew, nine, foot-ball, lacrosse or cricket team from...
...external appearance the new catalogue for 1883-4 contrasts rather unfavorably with that of last year. The new cover is different from those that the book has previously been bound in, and if no other edition is to be published, as we understand, it will prevent any person from keeping a uniform set. This seems unfortunate, especially since the new cover seems to be much inferior to the old in every way. Now that the publication has passed into the hands of the college, we notice one gratifying improvement, that the advertisements which used to mar the back part...
...will thus be seen that most of the objections come from Yale and to use the very works of the News "one can clearly see where the responsibility for the delay lies." We understand that our management is now endeavoring to make arrangements for playing the game at Springfield, and we hope this place will meet with no objection on the part of Yale. This discussion, however, may be entirely irrelevant on account of the recent eccentric action of the athletic committee of the faculty, but we think the above explanation is due to the earnest endeavors of the freshman...
...foot-ball, has astounded the whole college. Although at first it was hard to believe that any such announcement could be true, later developments have shown that the committee are thoroughly in earnest. while they state that they are backed by the faculty and corporation. While we can well understand what they complain of in foot-ball as brutal and demoralizing, and respect the good motives with which we are bound to credit them, and while we would ourselves gladly hail any reform of the objectionable features of the game as at present played, we can scarcely find words...
...records show that a man has been absent from too many of his recitations, the faculty have the power to demand better attendance of him at the time; and why they do not do this, but wait until many months have passed, is a matter hard to understand. If their aim is to exact a more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what is deemed an objectionable manner. Visting the sins of last year on the good intentions of this by a warning is obviously...