More can no college professor or 'varsity president impart.
Winston of the Texas 'varsity her representative of learning!
As the doctors have decided that all human frailties are but diseases, I do not despair of our 'varsity president.
For practice of this kind it is well to play the 'varsity back once in a while upon the scrub side.
That is, a 'varsity player will be called upon to face a forward line averaging one hundred and seventy-five or thereabouts, and men of less than one hundred and thirty-five to one hundred and forty are too light to meet that weight.
After a day or two of this it will be time to make changes in the combination of numbers, not only with an idea of deceiving the scrub side, but also to quicken the wits of the 'Varsity team.
All this regarding the weight of half-backs applies not only to 'varsity teams, but school teams as well, if one will make the proper proportional changes in weight.
As for me, I shall go back to 'Varsity and finish my course.
In a few weeks she would be leaving May and the dear old parsonage, but she would be glad to be back at 'Varsity again.
I am going back to Toronto for a week or two before 'Varsity opens.
The house was filled with 'Varsity girls this year, with the exception of Marie's old room, a change which Beth appreciated.
Clarence told her some amusing anecdotes of 'Varsity life, then went away early, as he was going to leave the village for a day or two.
I hear you are coming to 'Varsity this fall, Miss Woodburn.
Beth was not slow to decide that the "'Varsity maid" would make a model wife, so gentle and kindly and with such a broad, progressive mind.
The 'Varsity team breathe freely again and go in with new vim, while McGill settles down on the ball to recover steadiness.
But close upon him, and gaining at every foot, is The Don, the fleetest man in the 'Varsity team.
The McGill men are the first to appear on the campus, and are welcomed with loud and generous cheers, which are, however, redoubled upon the appearance of the 'Varsity champions.
In all their experience of their captain the 'Varsity men have never heard him swear, and they awake to the fact that they are face to face with a situation entirely unparalleled in their history as a team.
Into the 'Varsity dressing room strolls old Black, the greatest captain of the greatest team 'Varsity has ever seen.
A cloud of grief and foreboding settles down upon the 'Varsity team, for Pepper is not only a great favourite with them, but as a full back they have learned to depend upon him.
He's that 'Varsity football chap the fellows used to rave about.
Huntingdon, dropping on his knees on the line in front of the tramping, kicking 'Varsity phalanx.
It was a bitter moment to the 'Varsity men, but Campbell is a true sport.
With Gregory's figures running in his head, he shrank from his Club where he would be sure to meet a host of Harrow and Oxford acquaintance, up for the Varsity match, and the latter end of the season.
I shall row in the boat--the 'Varsity boat, of course.
Oxford crew of the first 'Varsity race, and he acted as page at the coronation of William IV.
Much less wine is consumed now, and a man can go through the 'Varsity as a teetotaler without any inconvenience.
In his flight he himself accounted for at least two Varsity players who sprang round the wings of his protecting line, hoping to intercept the big sprinter.
Presently, as the chorus of definite sounds and the meaning of the sounds spread along down the column, the Varsity boys took up the refrain, and it rose and fell in a great, thundering cadence.
But the Varsity section in the grand stand and the clump of blanketted Varsity substitutes and scrubs on the side lines were the craziest spots of all.
They knew now that, though the Varsity team might be beaten, and probably would be, they would not be disgraced.
But the Varsity eleven passed out of sight with shoulders that drooped and with no spring in their gaits.
He had turned into a merciless critic of the Varsity outfit.
It is an excellent exercise, and a seat in the 'Varsity boat is looked upon as the greatest athletic honor a college man may attain, excepting, of course, a captaincy.
This victory was all the more creditable from the fact that several of the Madison 'Varsity men had seats in the '97 boat.
De Saulles is a wonderful quarter-back, and will no doubt make the Yale 'Varsity in a year or so.
The Cascadilla oarsmen are fortunate in having the Cornell crews to row against, and each year they get races with the Freshmen and 'Varsity eights.
Gerhart would not be allowed to play on the 'varsity (which was the goal of every candidate), though he was allowed to line up with the scrub.
Phil was a little stiff in practice, but he soon warmed up, and the 'varsity eleven played the scrub "all over the field.
I'm going to run the 'varsity against the scrub, and I want to see how I make out.
For the 'varsity team was now a magnificent fighting machine.
The 'varsity quarter-back was allowed to begin practice the following week, and was soon playing with his old-time form.
Coach Lighton named those who were to constitute a provisional 'varsity eleven, and, to his delight, Tom's name was among the first named.
He felt that he was sure of his place on the 'varsity eleven, yet he called to mind how Langridge had used his influence to keep Tom Parsons from pitching in the spring.
Snail Looper soon recovered from the effects of the hard Boxer Hall game, and practice was resumed with the 'varsity bucking against the scrub.
When Tom got to the gridiron he found most of the 'varsity eleven there.
There are three candidates for every position on the 'varsity this term, and we fellows who have made the eleven will have to take care of ourselves.
After many hardships, not a few of which Langridge was responsible for, Tom got a chance to play on the 'varsity nine.
Hal had quite a reputation, gained during his last year at Hillton, as a full-back, and he was generally conceded to be certain of making the freshman football team, if not the varsity second.
The writer has given a chapter to the freshman game, but he is going to tell the story of the varsity contest, which occurred a week later, in a paragraph.
There was no track work that afternoon, since the Erskine varsity played State University.
After recess baseball held the boards and the varsity team was half-way through its schedule by the first week in May, and had but two defeats behind it.
He was silent a moment, looking across to where the second eleven was trying vainly to keep the varsity from pushing over her goal-line.
Allan, for all that he was quite as patriotic as any, felt the defeat of the varsity team less than he did the cessation of track work.
The varsity team had traveled down the river to play Hastings High School, and the freshman team was making the most of its opportunities.
It is from this freshman crew, and from the older hands, who may have been rowing in the Class races, that the 'Varsity crew of the following year will be recruited.
Probably the English builders have overestimated the weight of Australian eight-oar crews, which do not scale anything approaching a 'Varsity eight.
I'll tell you what I am going to do: I am going to take this matter into my own hands, and drill that scrub team myself, and see if we can't teach the varsity a thing or two.
It has its disadvantages in the long run, but on its first appearance at Kingston it fairly made the varsity team's eyes pop with amazement.
That was on the Tuesday before the 'Varsity match, or a full fortnight after his mysterious disappearance.
And, to the amazement of the two houses, he drew his arm under Snorky's and marched him right over to the 'varsity diamond.
The 'Varsity athletic organization drew men from every class, not excepting the professional and graduate schools, and, counting the trials and everything, brought together hundreds of men.
The next thing I'll hear is that he is going to pitch on the 'Varsity team.
Is it actually true, Parker, that Pierson has publicly stated that Merriwell is fast enough for the Varsity nine?
In the front rank of the sophs were Browning and two 'Varsity crew men.
Parker didn't lie, and Pierson has intimated that Merriwell may be given a trial on the Varsity nine.
Merriwell was selected as one of the pitchers on the 'Varsity nine, and the freshmen lost him from their team.
In the boathouse the great Bob Collingwood, of the 'Varsity crew, gave the freshmen some advice, and they listened to him with positive awe.
Paul," said the great man of the 'Varsity crew, "that fellow is fast enough for the regular team.
He was on the 'Varsity crew, and he had a back and shoulders which were the admiration of those who had seen him strip to the buff.
One night they ran up against the regular 'Varsity crew, and gave it a hot pull, but finally seemed to be beaten.
We are talking of this tub load of freshmen as if they were the 'Varsity crew.
The 'Varsity team had another pitcher, who was known as Dad Hicks.
Do you know that Paul Pierson, manager of the 'Varsity team, went on to see this game?
But Richard was not to be handled, and to the school and the ’varsity he chose the boys went.
He lived still in Pont Street, in the bachelor rooms he and Hugh had had since their ’Varsity days; for Bransby had liked to have Helen to himself often.
In another year he might be in the 'Varsity Eight itself, and help to avenge the defeat which the Dark Blues had just suffered.
Four days ago, after I had seen the Boat Race, I did as a good many other fellows from the 'Varsity do--I went West.
What a pity our 'Varsity cyclist corps were not posted in front of the zeriba at Omdurman to obviate the necessity of bullets when the Baggara horse came thundering down upon us!
Cross was an old Hertford man, who had rowed five in the 'Varsity boat of 1889, and had afterwards been appointed to an assistant mastership at Bedford.
A day or two after the receipt of the Sirdar's permit I happened to meet at dinner an old college acquaintance, Mr. Henry Cross, who had rowed five in the 'Varsity boat of 1888.
Billy was willing as Barkis, but the faculty said it would put a premium on laxity to make Billy a 'Varsity captain even though the present incumbents were ready, any of them, to resign in his favor.
But Hughie had not been communicative, though he had proved an eager and appreciative listener to 'Varsity gossip and athletic "shop.
It is true that the majority of English 'Varsity men give themselves an infinitely better education than that provided by the authorities.
Those who have learned bad habits at school or in the 'Varsity are inclined to continue the practices in later life.
It is a truism that 'Varsity athletes generally succeed in life, Spartan discipline proving itself incomparably superior to Greek accidence.
But on Tuesday, during the 'Varsity practice, suddenly as a scrimmage ended and sifted open a cry went up.
The 'Varsity took the ball and for five minutes Dink felt as though he were in an angry sea, buffeted, flung down and whirled about by massive breakers.
Only when there was a 'Varsity game and he was swallowed up in the indiscriminate mass that whooped and cheered back of first, thrilling at a sudden crisis, did he forget himself a little and feel a part of the great system.
Dink, laughing to himself at the ease of the trick, started across the Circle for the 'Varsity football field, whither already the candidates were converging to the first call of the season.
Green House, sir," said Stover, awed by the sight of a 'varsity jersey.
But Mr. Steptoe's strength would have been abnormally developed indeed to enable him to contend against the successful competitor in a hundred athletic contests in the old 'Varsity days.
Oh yes--he was a great athlete in his old Oxford days; was in the 'Varsity eight.
