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...bumping" races; that is, one boat started first, and if the following crew could run their bow into the stern of the other this was victory. This led to regular racing as now in vogue, though "bumping" contests are still engaged in by the rural colleges, and they are often features of country regattas. It was in 1829, and in the summer, that the first race between Oxford and Cambridge was rowed at Henley-on-Thames...
...staid Review. The Review treats of this whole question with so much patriotic ardor and industry and so much native vigor of style, that we are, after all, inclined to admire its work, even though it be done at our own expense. Such force and intelligence as the Review often displays, will go far to advance outside opinion of the intellectual condition of the students at Oberlin College, which the illiberal and often narrow policy of its faculty so frequently tends to diminish. As to the argument itself, against which the Review so eloquently musters the forces of its indignation...
...have a word of advice to offer. It is about the selection of the umpire. We all know how hard it is to get an unprejudiced umpire. Any man who takes this position is liable to favor one side or the other, even if he is not personally interested. Often a decision of the umpire wins of loses the game. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to the freshman nine that they get an umpire in their Yale games who is above the slightest suspicion of bias or prejudice. Every one knows that the umpiring of the freshman games...
...been paid to the success of this nine in its contests with the Yale freshmen. As the writer of the article says, "defeat has been regarded as a foregone conclusion which it is useless to endeavor to frustrate." It does seem very strange that our freshmen should so often seemingly accede to the desires of the Yale nine and play the first game at New Haven. The advantage thus given is incalculable. Every one can recognize the benefit resulting to a nine, comparatively inexperienced, when they can meet their opponents on home ground surrounded by ardent supporters and fellow-collegians...
...Spirit of the Times, in his report of the last of the regular winter meetings, advances the criticism that in several events the starting point was so low and change was made so slowly that many of the contestants became tired out before their final efforts, and thus often failed to equal their practice records. Thus in pole-vaulting, the bar was started at six feet and slowly raised to nine; and in the running high jump the tambourine was raised so slowly that at the highest points men were visibly unable to make the efforts they could have made...