Word: falling
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...called. To spectators, also, this tournament will be interesting, and probably very amusing. Any break in the winter's dulness is certain to be acceptable. The Athletic Association has shown praiseworthy activity in this matter, and we wish it would consider, at the present time, the results of its fall and summer meetings. In all of them there have been very few contestants, and among these a lack of thorough training. Some suggestions we made last fall as to how this might be remedied, by requirring the ground to be covered in a fixed time, and by handicapping the winners...
Under these circumstances, when there is a difference of opinion between the coach and the captain, the latter naturally wishes the decisive word, as in case of mistake the blame will fall upon him, and though ready to abide by his own mistakes, he naturally does not care to be responsible for those of another. This has been the cause of separation between the crew and the late coach. The latter insisted upon a measure which the captain believed to be wrong; he was therefore obliged to choose between rejecting the directions of the coach and retaining his own method...
...soon, brain-sick, we fall away...
...This club has laid out a plan of work which cannot fail, if carried out in all its particulars, to develop skilful marksmen. The club will hold at least ten matches a year, - monthly matches, at which all members of the club who have rifles can compete; spring and fall matches for teams representing the different buildings as they are divided into boat-clubs; and an annual match for the championship of the club. It is hoped that the graduates interested in rifle-shooting will offer a cup to be awarded to the champion, which he may hold...
...Athletic Association, if they are still debating the advisability of withdrawing from the Rowing Association. The Courant deplores the recent Harvard-Yale, unpleasantness, informs us that they are our friends still, and then rather illogically requests us to "cheer up"! According to the Courant's table, in this fall's athletics, Yale made the best time in four "events," Williams and Pennsylvania University in three, Harvard in two, Tufts in one, while Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Union, Cornell, and Bowdoin were in nothing pre-eminent. We would ask the Courant whether Yale's 252 Freshmen are in the Academic Department alone...