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...Princeton and Yale are excellent, especially since the games are to be played on home territory. There is yet need of less dribbling among the rushers, and better catching among the tends and rushers. The tackling and passing are about perfect, and the kicking of the full-backs well nigh faultless...
...well nigh impossible to criticise the style and form of the Yale crew. All the teachings of "Bob" Cook have been thrown to the wind, and in their place we have the "Hillsdale" stroke. Swing there is none, and all that is aimed at is a fast stroke. The men vary but little from the perpendicular either at the beginning or end of the stroke, and the sole means of propulsion employed are the legs and arms. The former to push the slide back and the latter to finish the stroke by pulling the oar home. There is a very...
...taken together with the prescribed work of the freshman year, amounts, probably, to as thorough a grounding in the leading departments of human knowledge as the entire course of many of our Western colleges affords. The Review confronts us with such a mass of statistics in reply as well nigh to appall us. Nevertheless, we are willing to accept the statistics with a good grace, and yet not recede from the essential point of our thesis. We instanced Oberlin as an example of such a Western college; in this, perhaps, we do a partial wrong. On the plain ground...
...those who have an idea that college students devote all their energies to taking their ease and enjoying themselves, it would be a good thing to visit the library between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. [The time of the semis draws nigh...
...Talkin' of city fellahs, I never see enybody droive so thunderin' fast as them. Why, I'm durned, if I did n't come nigh to havin' a hoss killed by 'em. I let 'em have him to go gunnin', and when that ere hoss got back he could scercely walk for lickin'. Drinkin', I s'pose, done it. I went to 'em and made 'em fork out fifteen dollars damage, and that did n't more than make me square. But, say; have you seed my sheep? Best lot in teown...