Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students have blamed the college authorities for not realizing how impossible it is for our nine to compete with nines of other colleges without good instruction, but we have done the same thing ourselves with regard to foot-ball. We must all of us, faculty and students, understand, once for all, that it is just as impossible for the average man to excel in athletics without instruction, as it would be for him to excel in his studies without instruction; and that it is just as absurd to expect an uncoached crew, nine, foot-ball, lacrosse or cricket team from...
...they were obstructing the view of those behind. This had the effect of bringing those who could not see as well into the line and straightway those on the lower tiers of seats were compelled to abandon them if they wished to see anything of the game. Such a thing is thoughtless or else contemptible in those who first move forward, and in either case an end ought to be made of the practice. If some definite regulation was made forbidding it or if some person were given the charge of the grounds, it could easily be stopped...
...crimson and blue and white, representing respectively Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia. That the game played was highly interesting and exciting no one will deny, but that it was foot-ball, as foot-ball should be played, we cannot admit. No doubt the game of Saturday was just the thing to suit the majority of the spectators. It was a regular series of wrestling matches and fist fights, interspersed at times with fine play of foot-ball. We can reiterate the remark of a spectator who stood by us, which was : "That's awful rough work, rougher than...
...best results, but few of us possess such a methodical turn of mind that we care to keep in the same rut very long at a time. Still whether one reads with some special end in view or does an indiscriminate skirmishing among the different departments, the principal thing is to read. In most cases some particular field will probably draw attention and make a merely general reading impossible. Above all read steadily; that is, do not draw out fifty books one month and only one or two the next. Find out how much you can digest and make...
...Boston journalist that he does not think it fair that the college should be censured for the occasional public disorder of some of the young fellows studying there. He states what is doubtless the fact, that there are only a few of the "men" given to this sort of thing, and that their conduct ought not to be made to reflect upon the entire university. And he has no little justice upon his side. The world is quick to adverse criticism upon people and things, but it is not always as prompt as it might be to render commendation where...