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...will be seen from the following letter from Mr. Walter Camp, the well-known Yale athlete and foot ball expert, some important changes are about to be made in the rules which have hitherto governed the great matches between Yale, Harvard and Princeton...
...boat returned, half an hour later, the Columbia launch steamed up river again, towing the shell and carrying the crew back to their quarters. They row with a somewhat quick but very powerful stroke. They rowed their first mile - as long as they could be seen well from the quarters - with a good rate of speed on, and with about 36 strokes to the minute...
...must more effectively deflect a spinning ball when the barometer is at thirty inches than when it is at twenty-nine inches. At cricket, even with the most perfect wickets, the break must be notably affected by accidental peculiarities of the ground. We have all of us seen the champion step forth from his place, while the ball was dead, to pat the ground where the ball was likely to pitch, and we have even occasionally seen him apparently successful in discovering some small stone or lump of hard earth which he has incontinently thrown away. (It has been said...
...Trinity Tablet complains that broken bottles are thrown around the walks of the campus. Whence come these bottles? Since May 1st, we have seen no bottles here...
...parts of Prof. Dicey on 'The Law of the Constitution,' and such a treatise as Cottu on the 'Administration of Criminal Justice in England,' are instances of this. Much of this sort of merit is found in this little book by Von Hoist. An illustration of it may be seen in his striking note at pp. 136, 137, on the Indians. 'The first cause of the failures and mistakes,' he keenly remarks, and it is as true today as it ever was, 'has been in no small degree the lack of knowledge of and care for the fundamental question...