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...departure in training the crew is worthy of commendation. Heretofore the tendency has been toward overwork; the crew has begun to train too soon and has worked too hard at the beginning. As a result some of the men have reached their best condition three or four weeks before the race, and from that time onward have deteriorated. Last year the experiment was tried of not having the old members of the crew begin to train until after the holidays. This method has worked so well that this year the whole crew has been kept off the weights until...
...Sprague-Bliss committee was only a step in the vast conspiracy to overthrow the State and National governments and to concentrate all power in the hands of the Alpha Delta Phi Society. It is, perhaps, even now too late to avert the threatened calamity, but, whatever may be the result, the country owes unspeakable gratitude to the World for its bold exposure of the truth. The Alpha Delta Phi Society has hitherto been supposed to be a harmless college society, organized for the purpose of permitting its members to wear breast-pins of a peculiar form. Under its cloak...
...principal naval powers of the world will send war ships to Honolulu. at the coronation of King Kalakaua. It is rumored that a revolution may result from his again assuming power in the islands...
...nine become minor points of consideration, while if the pitcher is poor no excellence on the part of other players can remedy the defect. The pitcher, with the assistance of the catcher, is depended on to do the work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural result. A team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing anything. Success in a game depends, too often, not on particularly good play on the part of the winners, but on some particular error...
...recent action of the Yale graduate advisory committee, which has some control over her athletics, in regard to Harvard's delay in answering the challenge of the boat club, has caused much amusement and some indignation at Harvard. The fact is that this was simply the result of an unavoidable and unintentional delay in holding meetings of the Harvard advisory committee. There has been and is now no intention whatever to decline the challenge, and a formal answer will be sent as soon as several preliminary questions are settled between the committees of the two colleges, the most notable...