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...Longwood cricket club will employ a professional trainer next season...
...They fairly played the Connecticut men off their feet in the last three quarters, while at the end they did not seem half worked out, The great disadvantage under which they labor seems to be the large number of new and inexperienced men which they have been forced to employ this year. It is an indisputable fact that experience is a most powerful promoter of success in an inter-collegiate contest, and in foot-ball probably more than in any other game this holds true. To obviate this difficulty Princeton has wisely centred her game...
Germany presents several unique features. First there is the gymnasium through which the student must reach the university unless he is rich enough to employ some influential tutor. The gymnasium is a classical school, divided into six forms. Every year examinations are held by government officials. In the gymnasium the discipline is rigid, in the university very free, the chief end of the student being to prepare for examinations. All through the system is one of examinations. Political offices are given to university graduates in proportion to their success in examinations...
...National Cyclists' Union employ detectives to see that racers ride "square" when on the track, and anyone detected doing otherwise is immediately suspended from the Union. It might be a good thing if something of that kind were done in this country...
...fact that the Princeton faculty, whose rules in regard to professional trainers are practically indentical with those in force at Harvard, has not deemed it inconsistent with the spirit of those rules to permit their Athletic Association to employ as trainer a man whom our own faculty deemed an improper person to exercise those functions at Harvard, is significant. We do not wish to indulge in captions criticism on the action of our athletic committee; but it certainly seems as though this action on the part of Princeton sustained the possibility of a doubt as to whether the action...