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Experience seemed to show that Princeton, perhaps because of her smaller numbers, was more prone to, these objectionable practices than Yale or Harvard. We leave it to you and to the public to judge from the evidence presented in 1 and 2 above whether or not she can justly be thought to have yielded to them this autumn in the constitution of her Football team. She is certainly on record as having opposed the passage of the rules aimed at their suppression, which were proposed in the convention held on Nov. 4. She alone voted against them, and the captain...
...before it is atterly condemned; if, after that trial, it proves inefficient, there will be time enough then to decry it. Young men are far too apt to find fault on the spur of the moment where no material fault lies; and college men most of all, perhaps, are prone to demand more than is their due. It certainly will not be amiss if the present system be allowed a little more time in which to show its good points as well as its bad ones...
...prone to be deterred from entering the contests from lack of confidence in their own powers, and these men especially we would urge to profit by the manifest advantage to be gained from contesting in the meetings...
...prone to believe that athletics have a deteriorating influence on the scholarship of the men who engage in them, will have his doubts dispelled by reading carefully the statistics published in this morning's CRIMSON of the rank obtained by those who have played on university and class teams during the years 1885-86 and 1886-87. These statistics were compiled with the greatest of care by the athletic committee, and are therefore as accurate and trustworthy as any statistics on such a subject can be. In nearly every case the standing of students on the university crew, nine, eleven...
...Boylston Prize speaking of last Thursday marked a great change in the style of declamation which has hitherto prevailed at Harvard Formerly every speaker was more or less prone to strain the natural effect of his address by an abundance of gestures and a pretentious oratorical display, thus sacrificing much of the intrinsic beauty of the piece. The speaking of night before last was characterized by coolness, simplicity and force; the gestures were few, but showed a careful judgement and the intonation was wonderfully clear. In one or two cases the coolness degenerated into coldness, and where the subject...