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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...physical instruction in a large number of schools in New York and vicinity. Owing to his other engagements he will be able to be in New Haven only three times a week, but he is such a thorough and skilful instructor that the men are making rapid progress under his directions. An unusually large number of men are in training for the games, and owing to the competent instruction they will receive, the prospects for a good winter meeting are better than those of any previous year...
...publish in to-day's issue an account of the progress of the freshman nine. Surely with such an array of talent, Captain Vila ought not to be at a loss to choose, when spring comes, nine men to represent '90 at New Haven. But, '90, only a small portion of the year's work has been done as yet. Strict training and much practice must be done before you will be able to cope successfully with Yale. You have beaten her once; it should be an extra incentive to be victorious over her in the base-ball field...
...shows the same improvement and growth. Although still known as a "college," the excellent schools of law, engineering, and medicine which Columbia possesses will soon compel her title to be changed to "university," a name to which it certainly has an undoubted right. Therefore in view of the gratifying progress which this rival 'university' of the future has made in the past few years, no pains ought to be spared by the able committee into whose hands the management of the celebration has been entrusted to make the coming birthday memorable in the history of the college...
...easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities to do an unreasonable thing when we demand that they shall indicate...
...each other team but one championship game each year, and the college teams seldom meet in practice games. Consequently the addition of one or two more colleges to the four already in the association will be greeted with joy by lovers of the game and those interested in its progress among the colleges...