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...careful and elaborate constitution adopted last evening. We regret that owing to the length of the constitution and our limited amount of space we could publish only the chief articles. This constitution will have good effect in giving a better standing to the association and getting it upon a firmer business foundation. There are certain sections of the by-laws which are not especially new, perhaps, but it is worth while to call attention to them. The laws of the Lawn Tennis in the second article of the by-laws must be noticed by every member of the association...
...years ago this spirit was never understood by us. Each captain played game as best he could and left us. There were no coachers scientifically trained that could assist the team. With Holden the change began and under Sears, Cumnock and Trafford our grasp of the game has grown firmer; and we venture to predict that it will now continue to grow till we are successful. It would be presumptuous to say that men of the past did not know the game, but the knowledge of each was distinct and came always from defeat. The present policy grasps the principles...
...western States as well as the eastern, and that each year its better facilities and larger curriculum are appealing to women students. Such a situation therefore is extremely gratifying to those who have its interests at heart and it gives a greater impetus to establishing it on even firmer grounds...
Under this committee athletics have taken a much firmer stand, the number of students who were in active training in 1891 being...
...literary men would find a healthy influence in the religious societies, and the latter would be broadened by contact with the literary men. By allying themselves with the humane interests of the university the religious societies would lose much of that seclusive character which prevents them from taking a firmer hold on the more liberal portion of the college. The aim of the proposers of the second plan is, then, to cherish the religious and the humane interests of the college side by side to the end that greater strength might come to each through contact with the other...