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Cricket will probably receive a boom in this country next spring. Efforts are being made in England to organize a gentlemen's team of cricketers, similar to the eleven which visited this country in 1885, to play matches in Philadelphia, New York and Canada. Correspondence in regard to arrangements for the visit is now in progress. An eleven from the North of England has also arranged to visit this country next summer...
...Wendell's article on athletics in the current number of the Monthly seeks to prove that the faculty's position in regard to "professionalism" is a wrong one; and further, that betting tends to lower the tone of athletic sports...
...regard to the first proposition, our stand was taken some years ago, and is well known throuhout the college. We have not seen the advantages reaped which were predicted by the action of the faculty in forbidding the base-ball men to practice with professional teams, and there is little indicatian that we ever shall see them. Under the present prohibition, we lose the manifest good which would result from contesting with our superiors, and gain nothing in return. We defeat the duffers at Marblehead twenty runs to two, and find in our games with Yale that there is danger...
...applied to dishonest practices, and holds that the faculty is unwise in forbidding all practice with professionals (in the proper sense of the word). We have in college a so-called "sporting element" which is really very deleterious to athletics. The point which Mr. Wendell makes here in regard to betting is a strong one-his position in the matter is undeniably the true one. Too much praise is no praise at all. But it is neither too much nor too little, to say that we have never read so thoroughly sensible and convincing an article on the much-talked...
There has been a good deal of notice taken in the last few months of this new universal language called Volapuk. The newspapers have referred to it many times; scien tists have argued over it. Perhaps a few facts in regard to it may be of general interest. Volapuk was invented by a German Catholic priest, the Rev. Father Schleyer of Constance, Baden. Germany. In 1878 he began work on a simplified universal language, to be used both in commerce and science, and in 1879 he published his system and a dictionary and grammar. The public first regarded the system...