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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Field Day at Michigan University, the hammer slipped from the hands of one of the contestants in the hammer throwing, and went into the crowd. Strange to say, no one was hurt...
...While we hear ever louder and yet more loud the alarming cry that the students do not read are not using the library, do not enter the Hall even, the great underlying evil, which is the aggressive centre of the disastrous situation remains untouched. We cannot hope for success say by untiring, ceaseless and unsparing agitation. The library at present offers no inducements whatever to the students at large. It is only by an effort, usually, that a student can manage to spend an hour within its walls, and while the libraries of other colleges remain invitingly open during...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-It is one thing to say that policy has been adopted and things have been done through the influence or advice of Mr. Bancroft, which are to be condemned. It is quite another thing to say that our crews can get on without a paid coach. As far as the first matter is concerned, the Athletic Committee and the Graduate Committee are perhaps better qualified to judge than we are. But I maintain we should insist on being consulted, we should insist on having the facts carefully considered, as far as concerns the need of a paid...
...coach ourselves, and you add to what is already the most objectionable feature of college rowing. You make it impossible for crew men to do as well in their studies, and so you prepare the way for the eventual abolition of rowing. If you object to Mr. Bancroft, gentlemen, say so, and prove your accusations. Show that the whole thing is not due to the personal pique or dislike of our distinguished graduate! But do not compromise by making us coach ourselves-unless you do it with the full understanding that you are thereby ruining our boating interests...
...committee say in their report, that they have attended four games of foot ball this autumn, the Harvard, Yale and Princeton series, and the Pennsylvania vs. Wesleyan,. The Yale Harvard game was the least objectionable, while the Wesleyan-Pennsylvania was the most so. In all there was brutal fighting with closed fists, and men had to be separated in the field: there was in general great lack of gentlemanly spirit. Premeditated and concerted off side play was rarely punished: it is hard to be detected by the referee and not always recognized as such by the audience. The committee find...