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Captain Fish was the only speaker, as Coach Haughton was unable to be present. The University team this year is not composed of veterans like Yale's, which is considered invincible. Men like ours, however, prove better in the end than such an organization. Our material is as good as last year's and our chances for a victory are more than even. This year the team has again had the best coach in the country, and also the best secondary coaches for all departments. During the past week the team has shown remarkable improvement. In the Yale game...
...third annual cross-country run with Yale will be held on the Yale course at New Haven at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. Each team will be made up of eight men, and the first five to finish on each will score. Each place will count according to its numerical position, and the team having the least total will win. Cups will be given to the winners of the first three places and the winning team will receive a banner...
After prolonged cheering, President Lowell spoke on intercollegiate contests as a means of college solidarity. "There is no more valuable habit in life that any man can acquire than the habit of winning; and athletics is a means to that end. But there are many men not on the crew, and many pale faces are seen about college." The habit of proper exercise is not as general as it ought to be. We are too much in the habit of thinking that it takes a specialist to enter athletics. This is not so. "You have heard me say that...
...worst thing about the Student Council is that the undergraduates who elected it have shown no respect for their own handiwork. The requests that men shall not cut on the days of games have been ignored by 1215 men in the last three Saturdays...
...cuts for the West Point game show how men give way to their quaint ideas about the right to cut, and the naive reasoning by which lazy men justify Saturday absences, argues well for a reconsideration of the present football schedule...