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...college in the improvement of these exercises but emphasizes more strongly the essentially false character under which they are held. A college, which in other matters distinctly disowns the paternal theory of college government makes but and ill showing in insisting upon preserving the anomaly of compulsory religious services. Almost nowhere else in the civilized world are men forced, to conform to a religious ritual despite their own wishes or the wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage...
...secured the ball and made a touchdown, again; however, the try at goal was a failure. Haines, the most effective player on the Institute team was disabled in this scrimmage, and his place was taken by Steele, Peirce taking Steele's place as end rush. Good rushing by Richards almost carried the ball to the centre of the field, but Biddle's and Henry's kicking forced it rapidly back, aided by the almost perfect tackling by Adams and support of Cabot. Biddle receiving the ball from a long pass carried it over the line, making the fourth touchdown...
Until lately it might have been said that the least change has taken place in the old English universities, Oxford and Cambridge. Their great endowments, the political feeling of the English for the retention of existing rights, had excluded almost all change, even in directions in which such change was urgently required. Until of late both universities had in great measure retained their character as schools for the clergy, formerly of the Roman and now of the Anglican church, whose instruction laymen might also share in so far as it could serve the general education of the mind; they were...
Some things the Tennis Association can do to improve the courts and some things it cannot. It is true that it can not give us first-class courts. Setting aside the great expense of grading and turfing, and of almost daily rolling, sprinkling and cutting, that is absolutely necessary if one is to have a good grass court at all-an expense the students would never submit to -no grass courts, however well cared for, could be kept in good condition under constant use and the wear and tear to which the college courts are subjected. They are played...
...that will cost little to build, that will need only a little sprinkling and occasional rolling to keep in order, and that will be only better the more they are played on-we mean bare clay courts. At Princeton no turf courts are used at all. The courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very little expense, by simply replacing the present thin layer of loam with...