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...critical article on "English and American University Athletics," by John Corbin '92, appears in the October Outing, and ought by reason of its practical value to attract wide attention. The author knows his subject thoroughly, having represented one of the numerous colleges in football and the University itself in track athletics...
Only within recent years has an interest been felt either by English or American university men in international athletic contests. The growing familiarity of each with the other has therefore revealed wide differences not only in the technical features of various events, but in the prevailing spirit of sportsmanship as well. "Granted, the common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century...
...serious work, as he gained his his first renown as a philosophical interpreter and a writer on scientific subjects. Besides his great work on the history of the United States, he gained fame by his "Idea of God," "The Destiny of Man," and "Through Nature to God." His wide reputation was not due to books alone, as he was at one time the most popular American lecturer on serious subjects. In all his work his ability to make everything clear and easy to understand and to enliven the least interesting themes, made him familiar to all classes of people...
...University crew rowed in the same order yesterday as on Wednesday. They used the new shell for the second time and it proved very satisfactory. It was built by Davy on very much the same lines as last year's shell, having the same fine bow and wide shallow stern. The keel is a half-inch deeper and consequently the boat is even stiffer than last year's shell of the same model...
William Arthur Babson '01, of South Orange, N. J., prepared for college at the Bordentown Military Institute. Although this is the first time he has been a member of an intercollegiate team, he has had wide experience as a public speaker. He won the Junior Oratorical Contest last year, and the Baird Prize for oratory this year. He will take part in the Lynde Debate at Commencement, on the American Whig Society team and will also be one of the Commencement speakers...