in any branch of student activity. That spirit of
ridicule which so often greets well-meant and
whole-souled enthusiasm has clone more harm than
we can imagine. It has often rudely checked and
rebuked ideas and ambitions that might have ac
complished great things fcr their Alma Mater.
Let us strike now while the iron is hot, before
the student body has crystallized out around old
and prejudiced ideas and begin those movements
we have so long talked about, but as yet have not
accomplished. Let's have good, active, bustling,
and well attended literary societies, let's have in
ter-society debates and amateur theatricals, let's
have a better FREE LANCE and a larger number of
contributors, let's have a banjo club and glee club.
OUR football record so far this season has been
very gratifying though a look at the actual
scores might not lead an outsider to think
so. So far we have won three games and lost two.
One defeat was really a victory, but through tac
tics that were a disgrace to the name of athletics
our boys were robbed of the game. The other de
feat was as much glory to us as a victory. It was
administered by the University of Pennsylvania,
and up to the Princeton game that occurred a
week and a half later it was the toughest morsel
the Quakers had to digest so far this season. Al
though the 'Varsity boys did not play quite tip to
their usuul form, it was quite a' credit to us to
make a score i 8 to 6 against such a team of stars.
We were fully justified in our celebration when we
heard the news, and, when the team came back
and told us that we had another touchdown and
goal which were not counted by order of the ref
eree, although he afterward acknowledged that he
was mistaken, we might be pardoned if our hats
were a little small for our heads.
Our victory over the Univefsity of Virginia was
a great one. This is the largest institution south
of the Mason and Dixon line and champion.of the
couth in football. The Western University game
on Nov. 6th was also quite a victory for us. Our
Bucknell game was not so gratifying. Had our
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boys played in anything like the form they did
against "Old Penn" the score would have been 4o
or 5o to o, instead of 36 to 1.3. It was a victory
and showed our team's immense superiority, but
all the spectators must concede that Bucknell's
team work and interference were Letter than ours
and that our defensive work was extremely ragged
in the second half.
Our material this year has been magnificent,
and if we had only permitted ourselves the luxur
ies of a training table and a good coach, our team
would stand on a plane with any but the big four,
Yale, Harvard, Princeton and U. of Penn. It
still remains to be seen what we can do with An
napolis and Lehigh. West Point wishes us to
play, but as we will have to deny ourselves the ex
pensive pleasure of a trip up the Hudson. A
stricter and more energetic management could no
doubt have accomplished more, but Manager
Quigley and Captain Haley deserve all praise for
what they have done as well as the thanks of the
whole school.
THE news of Professor Jackson's death though
momentarily expected sent a wave of deep
and heartfelt sorrow through the college,
and we all felt that both personally and as an in
stitution we had sustained a great loss. His great,
open, noble nature had endeared him to all who
knew him, and among all our corps of instructors
he was probably the best loved and admired. He
was the student's especial friend, their champion
when in the right, and the first to. attempt to turn
them when in the wrong. We knew it, and we
loved him. No one's sarcasm was so biting when
his just indignation .was aroused, but no one wrs
so anxious to repair the injury when once inflicted.
His kindly regard went out to each man separate
ly and seemed by some unseen influence to lift
him to a better effort and higher motives. We
always studied harder and did more wcrk for
"Old Josiah," as we called him. He had many
marked peculiarities amounting almost to eccen
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