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...Herald" wanted and what it got in the races between the Esperanto and the Delawana. The trophy, now at Gloucester, will be sailed for again next summer, and it is quite certain that no yacht masquerading as a fisherman will be allowed to compete. Such is the not uncertain dictum of the "Herald", and all lovers of rough and ready seamanship will heartily endorse this stand on the part of the Canadian journal...
...contention has recently been made that agitation for numbering Harvard players "is largely the result of suggestions from sources that need but slight attention." This statement inevitably recalls the dictum of the National Rules Committee, in a note under Rule 3, section 3, saying: "The committee recommends that all players be numbered...
...hours of baseball practice may get a broader outlook on the game than is gained by the pitcher or the catcher, but how the broad outlook thus acquired serves to advance either his own physical condition or the game of baseball is a question still unanswered. Emerson's dictum, is often quoted (or misquoted) by persons who in their reading, find it more comfortable to sit on the bleachers than to take part in the game. His words are: "I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading...
...flood of volumes engendered by the European conflict seems to have abated. Though a rather diffident Senate has not yet seen fit to usher in a final peace, the reading public has issued the dictum: "Nothing more about the war!" "The Yankee in the British Zone" is a courageous challenge to this decision, and as such, if for no other cause, deserves consideration...
...inevitable that, in spite of any ready made dictum of any national or sectional athletic organization, there would be football this fall. When the frosty delirium of autumn is in the air, and the southing sun shines on the goal posts of the stadium, we remember proud victories of the past, and no less proud defeats. Though the five continents be swallowed up in war, and the Kaiser twist his embattled moustaches a thousand times a day with the fierce conceit of conquest, still football will go on. As long as there is one ball to boot, and one goal...