Word: references
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON.-The article in your issue of February 8th upon "Our Ranking System," reminds one very forcibly of the fact that it is quite easy to find fault with a system and suggest remedies, but unfortunately what seems a remedy to one appears as an injustice to another. I refer to the "third reform" which the author of the above mentioned article suggests, which is essentially as follows: that, since the fact of having taken one course in any branch of knowledge, renders a student more fitted to advance in other courses of that branch, this should be discouraged...
SUGGESTIONS FOR WALKING.N. B. These hints are not authoritative, and do not refer to any particular kind of walking. They apply to instructors as well as to freshmen...
...aspiring university has called upon public sentiment to sustain them in their claims and we can do no better than refer them to the editorial taken from a leading paper for an idea of what the outside world thinks, which we print in another column...
OBSERVER.EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON:- In your issue of Tuesday, you publish an article entitled "American vs. English Tennis" on which I should like to make three observations. In particular I would refer to the following sentences. "In volleying. the English player invariably takes the ball as late and as close to the ground as possible, and this he manages to do without losing speed in his return. In fact on the other side the return volley is immensely harder than it is in America. The advantage of this is obvious to anyone who has studied the game. In the American style...
There is one event included in the contests for the inter-collegiate cup to which we do not think the Athletic Association pays sufficient attention. We refer to the tug-of-war contest, which is passed over as of secondary importance by the officers of the association. As the sports will be exceedingly close this year, and every effort must be made to retain the emblem which we have held for so many years, it seems a good time for training more carefully than heretofore a team for this event. We can of course have no regular trainer for this...