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...therefore strongly advise that this custom be discontinued now and hereafter. We hope you will give the matter due thought, and arrive at the same conclusion we have. Under the circumstances, therefore, we do not approve your employing Mr. Bancroft as coach. We are, however, as you know, simply an advisory committee, and the final decision of this question rests with the faculty committee on athletics, to whom you should refer it again if you now wish...
...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, said he considered that it furnished the best exercise of any game. And what is the verdict of the youth of the country? Decidedly in its favor. The Rugby game was introduced lese than ten years ago, and for some years...
...Sprinfield Republican thinks that "the Harvard boys ought to be kept at prayers till they know better than to tar the bronze statue of John Harvard...
...rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn't it?" Loud, we should rather say it did; does he hake any more noises like that, we want to know? "Well," says Snodkins, "it may seem rather steep at first, but I have got used to it; had to, in fact. After a few months in college, noises affect one very little. I used to think they were terrible, but bless you I don't mind...
...think would work a great change in our method of playing foot ball. It is this. Mr. Lathrop, the trainer, has been engaged at an assistant professor's salary, and will of course be willing to devote all his time to our athletic interests. As far as we know, his field of usefulness is at present limited to track athletics. But, surely, that cannot occupy all his time. In the light of a suggestion, therefore, for we do not presume to interfere with Mr. Lathrop's plans, we propose that, by a careful study of foot ball...