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...each essential to the success of the kick. And there is a movement on foot at present to make the suggestion to the Rules Committee that in the future goals from touchdowns be kicked from drop-kick formation. The proposition is that the two teams line up not nearer the goal than 20 yards and there made a real play of the try for goal, either from placement or drop-kick, but by all means with the elevens lined up as in a scrimmage...
...been prevalent around Harvard Square the temptation to build a Xerxes' throne of our own on the seats of the Bowl at New Haven. The general feeling of confidence with which we began the season has increased many-fold; and with this increase we are drawing every day nearer to the line of demarcation that separates confidence from the pride that "goeth before a fall...
...tempora, O mores!" The good old Gold Coast bath become a concert hall; and while the Seniors in the Yard with merely a seven o'clock bell lie sleeping with blissful dreams, nearer the fever the less fortunate Juniors and Sophomores toss restlessly between the sheets and softly curse...
...greatly to the advantage of the United States and of Peru if that capital could be American capital. For Peru is only a 10 days voyage from the States and all feelings of sympathy with the United States put aside, Peru would rather trade with a country that is nearer her than Europe...
Whether Dr. Eliot's strictures on West Point are tenable or not remains for experts to decide, but why becloud the issue of his charges of "woozyness" by attempting an analogy between two wholly unrelated subjects? When a man intimates that our habits might be worse if we were nearer New York, or Philadelphia--or Sodom and Gomorrha--he makes a statement that reflects credit neither on his logic nor on his ethical standards. Surely there is more than a saving remnant among the student body who deplore with Dr. Eliot the lawlessness and indecency that characterize the conduct...