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...last Sunday's Herald of great interest. Mr. Camp handles his subject in a very entertaining manner, and in addition to his defence of the game, gives a short account of the way the game used to be played in America, showing that the Rugby game is much safer than the old game...
...shells are very expensive, and professionals use them, the committee may possibly forbid the crews to row in them. Barges are much safer and last at least ten years. Yale, after a half dozen successive victories, might be persuaded to row in a barge. The expenses of boating at Harvard and Yale would undoubtedly be lowered, and our Catalonian triumvirate would have purified athletics, and restored their pristine simplicity and cheapness. The results of giving up our regular coach may not be as disastrous to our boating prospects as an order to row in a barge; but when four mile...
...morals to his direction. A remedy would be to select an amateur athlete from the graduates, educated as a physician, and give him a salaried office, with duties as general adviser and guardian of the athletic interests. Such a man, if properly qualified, would help the students to a safer and better physical development than they now get, and would, besides, soon drive away all trainers exercising improper influences among them...
...congratulate themselves that in no point in the society's history has it been found necessary to levy an assessment. The stability and usefulness of the society as a college institution is now well assured. The society has been run on a close financial basis, as is the safer plan, and therefore has often been hampered by lack of capital with which to conduct its operations. It has always, however, been able to profit by the courtesy of affiliated tradesmen, and thus has not seriously suffered from this cause. It would be much better if it had a small capital...
...many respects the party of Thursday night looked like an attempt at a revival of the custom. So much so, indeed, that the sophomore class considered it a matter of sufficient importance to call a class meeting Thursday afternoon, and endeavor to dissuade the freshmen from their project. The safer course would seem to be for succeeding freshman classes for some years to come to abandon all attempts at going to the theatre in a body until the tradition in the matter has entirely died...