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Scoring kicking, of course, is done only from the ground--both the placement kick and the drop-kick being made in this way--and need not be considered in extense in a treatment of the general use of the kicking game. Punting is the thing, in that it makes openings for the running game, or retrieves blunders made by the running game...
...race. The five men to place will probably be Patterson and Lippincott, of Pennsylvania, Bond and Seward, of Michigan, and Reller, of Cornell. Since Bond has done 9 4-5 seconds this spring and since all are capable of 10 seconds flat, the winner is extremely doubtful. One thing is certain, if weather conditions are favorable, the victor will have to do 9 4-5 seconds or better...
...wreck, he may obtain in any school of journalism, or under the eye of the editor who takes him on. A good many editors, perhaps all editors, have an ingrained prejudice for training their own men in the style which they prefer. It is certainly not a bad thing for the beginner to be earning money while he gains his training, or to be saving time in his advance in his calling...
...thing is certain, however, that with fair weather, the competition Friday and Saturday should be the most spectacular in years, and should lead to the making of several new records, for almost every college is represented by a few individual stars. But with the new scoring system, the first-place man is worth only one point more than the man who finishes second, so that it is not the team with a few individual stars that should win, but the team uniformly strong in every event. Herein lies Yale's chances for victory. Besides stars like Brown, Poucher, Potter...
...choosing courses might profit by. "I thought I would take Natural History IV," he says, "Just to hear Professor Shaler, but it proved to be a 'New Heavens and a new earth'...The ideas which I got from Professor Shaler led to many other inquiries, and no one thing can ever happen to me so fortunately from an intellectual point of view, as happened when I took N.H.IV." It was not Natural History IV in itself which so inspired Mr. Baldwin, but Natural History IV as given by Professor Shaler. Two or three courses under the great teachers...