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...some regulation of athletics. But, to state the question in plain terms, what evidences have we seen of this necessity? What has been done by the athletes of our college in the past few years that necessitates some regulation by a kind faculty? We have been playing a rather rougher game of football than in the past. True; but it is a well-known fact that the students as a body were opposed to the roughness of the game, and there can be no doubt that student sentiment would have stepped in to prevent the repetition of such playing...
...just the thing to suit the majority of the spectators. It was a regular series of wrestling matches and fist fights, interspersed at times with fine play of foot-ball. We can reiterate the remark of a spectator who stood by us, which was : "That's awful rough work, rougher than I've ever seen, but if it suits them it certainly does me." The excitement ran very high among the spectators, and the college boys fairly hugged each other with joy as their favorite team would make a good play. Had the referee done his duty he would have...
...Harvard team averaged fifteen pounds heavier than that of Princeton, but the latter were quicker, surer, and apparently in better condition. The playing was much rougher than that which usually characterizes the Harvard-Princeton games. The students here indulged in a bonfire jubilee tonight. [Times...
...easy to tell a lyceen from a collegien (college being the generic term now applied to the higher class of clerical schools) by his way of conducting himself in the presence of his elders," says the London Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in a sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking...
...Thames cannot be much rougher than the Connecticut at the Peconsic Narrows, which is said to be the roughest place in the whole race, and was yet the starting-place for the last two races...