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Much talk has been going the rounds lately about the various athletic clubs sending teams to England next year. We know of nothing authoritative, but the talk is that the Manhattan Athletic Club will send Myers, Waldron, Fredricks, and Lambrecht. The Williamsburg Athletic Club, Delaney and Murray. The New York Athletic Club, Baxter, Ford, and Queckberner...
Dear Sir : The attention of the committee on athletics has been sharply called during the past few weeks by the numberous accidents which have happend at foot-ball on the play grounds of various colleges, to the conditions under which the inter-collegiate match games of foot-ball are now played and to the rules of the American Inter-Collegiate Association for the season of 1883. Some of these rules seem to the committee to be highly objectionable. Rules 19, 28 and 38, a copy of which I append, appear to allow of no other inference than that the manly...
...each upper arm, and half as much to that of each fore-arm, while a gain of from three to five inches about the chest is nothing rare, and all this simply by less than an hour's daily work, yet which, besides expanding the lungs, called the various muscles of the arms, shoulders, chest and all the greater part of the body into vigorous play...
Next comes various directions as to the quality and quantity of clothing to be worn in heat and cold. "Clothing should be easy, compression should be avoided." A daily bath is recommended to all. "The cold morning sponge or shower bath is refreshing, but it should be taken in a warm room, and only when the skin is well reddened by subsequent rubbing." A soap and warm water bath should be taken at least once a week. The student should always have at least eight hours sleep, and if any is lost, Dr. Wilder says it should be made...
...necessary that we should have the sympathy and aid of the different sections. It is impossible for the editors to secure every item of news about the university unless they are aided by outsiders. For such aid as has been readily given us by the officers of various organizations, we wish to express our thanks. But we should like to have the officers of all the organizations and indeed all the members of the university feel that any news that they may be possessed of, is of interest to our readers and will be thankfully received. We have...