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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order to see college sports. Even the provision that no Harvard men except members of the H. A. A. can compete is unjust, since the association sends a team of athletes every year to represent Harvard at the Mott Haven games. A university team ought to be drawn from the university, with no restriction, and university sports ought to be open to the university, with no restriction...
Your question the validity of conclusions drawn from percentages, explaining that "unless Yale gains not merely in percent. but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind." It would certainly be an agreeable spectacle to watch the delusive exultation of Yale at rolling up every year an enormous increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south...
...Hannis Taylor, of Mobile, Ala., has made one of the most important recent contributions to constitutional history, in the form of a treatise on the Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, in which is drawn out, by the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of the English constitutional system and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the United States. Mr. Taylor is a writer of the school of Freeman and Fiske, who find in constitutional history a gradual evolution of the principles of government. To students of American history the introductory...
...ultimate effect of the recent vote of the Athletic committee will simply be to free our intercollegiate athletics from many disagreeable complications such as those which have come into prominence this college year, and to tighten the bonds already existing between Harvard and Yale until they are at last drawn together into a dual league...
...culture at Cornell, is preparing an illustrated work on in-door athletics. It will contain illustrations for which students will pose, of over a hundred positions in wrestling, boxing and fencing. He is also compiling a chart showing the physical proportions of young men. Statistics of measurements will be drawn from Yale, Amherst, Oberlin, Cornell and various colleges throughout the country...