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...only game in vogue. There were as many games of Rugby, for each college has a team in each or tries to have. This, too, is a game in which men who are light upon their feet and have not a quarter of a ton of beef and brawn to their credit can play. Oxford men seem to think that nature has given something to men of medium weight, men of 160 pounds or thereabouts, which is the ideal weight for an oarsman or an all round athlete. Nor were these two all the games in progress. There were teams...
...graduate: "It depends upon the West whether Yale shall become the primate of colleges in this country. The West should give it its young blood and brawn, and we should begin to send a constant stream of promising young men Yale ward. The very democratic character of Yale has made it the institution that appeals to the West. It has somehow from its beginnings given out a spirit that is consonant with the feelings and aspirations and admiration of the West, and therefore Yale is, of all colleges today, the idol of the West. I see a significance beyond this...
...trouble, if any this year, has not been with the system but with the material offered. While plenty of fairly good men have been develped, and material abounds for short distance crews, there is undeniably a lack of first-class 'Varsity oars; men of enough brawn and stamina and skill to stand four mile racing...
...function of the merchant should be, not to make money, but to serve his fellows by furnishing them the necessaries of life. Every transaction is to be measured by this test. The only way in which a self-respecting man can acquire property is through his brain or his brawn. The desire to get something for nothing is in itself dishonest...
...talents than athletics. Why should our representatives in these events not share in the glory of champions in the University, and more general interest on the part of students meet the growing interest of the public in the contests where for the time being brain is as important as brawn...