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...topic suggests further interesting and vital questions, of which we can mention only a few. What exercise can be recommended to the hard student? He has, perhaps, no knack for games; the weights and bars are to him as cheerful as a treadmill; he can not afford a horse, even if he knew how to ride. To him a walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there...
...second assertion we could all have taken for granted without his mentioning it. It is all very well to keep the captain of the 'Varsity team up to his work, but the captain of the 'Varsity team knows his duty, and has shown every intention of performing it, even without the valuable assistance of our "great and wise judge...
...Beecher, coming as it does alomst on the eve of the contest with the men from Jersey, is a very critical one, and if it does not deprive Yale of the championship it will at least injure the chances greatly. Beecher cannot play for a week at least, and even if he recovers sufficiently to play in the game with Princeton on the 19th, he will be under the double disadvantage of a lack of practice and a very tender leg. Beecher is the only man in college who is a first-class quarter-back. There is absolutely...
...must not be forgotten that our inferiority to Princeton and Yale was likewise great, and that much abor had to be accomplished and put us in a class which could compete with these. This has been accomplished. Everything which is learned from now on ought to make our chances even of winning at least one of the games. We can look forward to this, and from all appearances there is little to make us discouraged for our contest with Yale, even if beaten by Princeton. The men played earnestly and well on Saturday and deserve the congratulations of the college...
There is no escaping the fact that our failure in intercollegiate athletics is largely due to a morbid and unhealthy cynicism prevailing here-a cynicism that represses individuality. self-assertion, and even enthusiasm. No one admires more than myself the quality of "self-conceitedness"- if I may use the term-that is fostered here. But I protest against the extreme to which the culture of the conventional and the worship of the proper is carried in this University. It is true the Harvard man of to-day has admirable tact, a useful amount of self-possession, and a praiseworthy respect...