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...effort to have the hearing before the Committee on Athletics postponed having proved fruitless, it is timely to put in a plea for the continuance of foot ball in the future. It seems to us that foot ball is too valuable a game to be discontinued and that, it the committee have so strong an objection to the game as their notice implies, they should make an attempt to better it before forbidding it entirely. That it is a valuable game is proved in many ways. Not long ago, the man most qualified to know, the director of the gymnasium...
Several months had been passed in these fruitless efforts. Grant was now no nearer the city which was as safe as ever. It was almost the end of April. Something must be done. A new and, as it proved, successful plan was devised. To harass and occupy the attention of the enemy a cavalry raid to the east and rear of the city was carried out successfully by Colonel Ryerson, while Sherman and his corps watched the works just above Vicksburg. Grant moved the rest of his army to the west side of the river and making a wide circuit...
...sophomores, confident of an easy victory, had made few preparations for the contest, except that of putting on their oldest clothes, and they were guilty of the extreme folly of wearing their own back hair, a mistake which, as the event proved, was destined to make the struggle a fruitless...
...points more. In the last three quarters the Princeton team played entirely for their captain, leaving it to him to gain every particle of advantage, while their duty seemed only to hold what he gained. Had our half-backs been surer, however, his long kicks might have been rendered fruitless, for the chief advantage he sought depended on fumbling by our backs. The only possible precaution to be secured against his wonderful kicking was either to keep the ball away from our ground or else never to let it pass from our hold...
...piling drifts he manfully trudged. But it was hard work for the little fellow, and after a short time he could make no headway at all. His hands were numb and stiff, and several times he fell headlong, spilling his bundles and their contents. Then, wearied out with his fruitless endeavors, he resigned all hope and began to cry. It was this that attracted the notice of the stranger, floundering about in the drifts a hundred feet away. Then the child felt himself lifted from the ground by a strong arm and heard a cheerful voice saying...