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...long enough to gain a thorough knowledge of the art. I can assure you that I had not been at Oxford or Cambridge long before I appreciated the superiority of the English method. I saw at once that my previous knowledge of rowing amounted to nothing. It was all-wrong, and I at once set to work to master the proper system...
...Princeton students feel very sore over the unqualified surrender which they have been drawn into making from their position. An Alumnus of several years said that the way matters stood at present placed the students in a puerile light, that they were wrong in not providing for some future action, that a system of espionage did exist in the college, and that he thought the majority of younger Alumni believed it. As it stands at present it is uncertain whether any further action will be taken...
...offer this plan, fully convinced that the present one is radically wrong, and that this year the injustice will be greater than ever before, owing to the small number of the courts. A system so absurdly unjust as the present one must go some time, and the present is the best time to do away with it without injustice...
...forth by the crusaders. As a system, those sports have many objects, that of school day-recess amusement, not by any means being the only one. The opportunity for and impetus to systematic physical training we regard not as the least of these. Indeed it would not be wrong to consider this their foremost object, if sometimes an object not fully avowed. This element in athletics the Advertiser entirely leaves out of account. "But the growth of the professional spirit has gone," it says, "so far that the idea of playing any game except for the purpose of beating, seems...
...sides to every question and these two sides seem very plain in the case of the Hamilton College seniors. From the published statements it would seem that, not in any respect different from most such cases, both parties, the faculty and the seniors,-are more or less in the wrong. But it is always inadvisable for outsides to attempt to pass any pronounced judgments on such matters, as the means of correct information are always limited. Every college student knows how much his actions are miss-represented and misunderstood by the outside world and, we presume, college faculties experience...