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...Stewart, '87, the mainstay of the Lampoon, two years ago, has recovered from his recent severe illness, and will spend the next two years in this country. He was in Cambridge yesterday...
...chances would be much better if he could improve his method of starting. Steady training and good coaching may improve him in this respect, and he stands a reasonably good chance of doing himself credit in the inter-collegiate contests. C. F. Odell, '86, is the mainstay of Yale's hopes in the 220 yards dash. Odell has always been a fast sprinter since his extrance to college, three and a half years ago, but he seems to have got his time just so low, and now can't lower it. If he wants to win at the games...
...needs College aid is particularly to be encouraged, - he must not be lost sight of, he is the mainstay of the land; but, if he is pecuniarily successful in after life, his children are snubbed in their turn, - they have their innings in the little game of College tag, and out go they: so that College tactics would seem to be directed to the admirable end of preparing men without means for the propagation of the loafing species...