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...order to prevent the possibility of going stale, the coaches ordered a complete rest for the entire University football squad yesterday afternoon. Secret practice will, however, be resumed this afternoon. In contrast with last year, none of the men were seriously injured in the game with Princeton, although Trumbull and O'Brien are somewhat lame...
...tube. On account of this method of construction, which is the same as that employed in the sub-aqueous tunnels near New York, the air is kept passing through the tunnels, and being constantly renewed, each train sucking after it a supply of good air and pushing out the stale...
...late on the part of many of the colleges to have the intercollegiate meet of May 29 and 30 serve as the qualifying games for the Eastern college athletes. The college men are trained to do their best in this meet and there is great danger of their being stale a week later, thus depriving the American team of some of their best men and lessening materially their chances for success. Since the larger part of the team is usually composed of college athletes, there is reason to suppose that this proposed change will be seriously considered by the committee...
...many of our recitation-rooms the air during recitations is so stale that long before the end of the hour the classes become drowsy and uncomfortable. This is rarely the fault of inadequate ventilation, but is in most cases due to indifference on the part of undergraduates. Men who despise personal uncleanliness will sit in a poisonous atmosphere and watch unconcerned some enemy of the race cut off all hope by fastening down the last window. In winter the desire for warm air, however thick it may be, has a superficial excuse, but in mild weather only the confirmed poison...
...training table has an even more definite value than that of providing good food. It tends to stimulate sociability and good fellowship, two important factors in producing team play. It is all very well to say that the men must eventually "go stale from having the sport served up as a necessary conversational accompaniment to every meal," but there is a far more undesirable state of affairs, wherein an athlete, eating at a private table, is plied with questions in regard to the team, and, as the centre of an inquisitive group, is never allowed to forget his athletic connections...