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...Jaffray '99, right guard, is a graduate of Westminster School, New York, where he played for two years in the line. He is young and somewhat green, but has pluck and is a ready learner. He is strongest on defensive play. Age 18, height 6 ft. 3 in., weight...
There is a danger, however, of taking defeats too philisophically. The second game with Yale will be played next Tuesday under much less favorable circumstances than those of yesterday and will be sure to test the pluck of the nine to the utmost. That they have the best wishes of every member of the University, goes without saying...
...Burdett Hart, of the Yale Corporation, writes of the Yale college discipline: "The college discipline takes account of, and trusts, the honor and manliness of the students. Instructors and students meet on a common ground of confidence and of scholarly ambition. Athletics have their place. They encourage manliness, pluck, perseverance, honor, self-control. Defeat on the field is to be borne in as manly a way as victory. Yale is taught never to dishonor itself in defeat. It is always to assume victory. It puts high a generous heroism, a magnanimous appreciation of others...
...College House."Pushing to the Front, or Success Under Difficulties," is the title of a new book published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The author, O. S. Marden, has taken for his theme the inevitability of success to any youth who has the grit and pluck to seize his opportunity and fight his way; that if he is really deserving he can neither be buried nor obscured; that the barriers are not yet erected which can say to aspiring talent, "Thus far, and no farther...
...quick game. For the first time this year, Mackie donned his football clothes and took part in the preliminary practice in which the backs rehearsed the signals and ran with the ball behind a good bank of interference headed by Waters. In breaking up this interference, Gierach displayed pluck and endurance. The familiar figure of Bernie Trafford was seen running here and there, coaching the players. Most of the men who played in Saturday's game were laid off and took light practice by a short run, accompanied by Mackie. Hallowell was out for the first time since his injury...