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THE COLLEGE ARGUS.
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fails to do it has taken his life measure ; he has been " weighed in the balances and found wanting ; " he has not " passed up " on character, and whatever his rank in scholarship may be his college experience has been a failure. I believe in enjoying to the full the inspiring, ennobling, real joys of a college life. They are peculiar, found nowhere else, and should be appreciated. A student cannot afford to ignore them, and be a gloomy pessimist all through his college course. The tone and temper of after life is quite largely determined by the manner in which these four years are spent. But looking back to under-graduate experience, nearly two decades away, my advice to every one so fortunate as to be enrolled at " Old Wesleyan " is, first of all, be true to yourself, and your deepest convictions of duty. Dare, if necessary, to be singular that you may be right. Keep on the best terms with your own conscience, be ambitious to gain the abiding respect and appreciation of your instructors (it's worth having), and especially of your fellow students. There is no place where genuine manliness, or glaring inconsistency has more influence in shaping others' characters than here. This is the moulding time of life, and good or bad example has its best opportunity for making impression. ALUMNUS.
foot-Vatt. MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY .vs. WESLEYAN. Wesleyan men supposed they had witnessed the last game of the season, which our team should play, when Manager Beattys received word from the Michigan University eleven, that they were coming East, and would like to meet our eleven at Hartford on Monday, the igth. The challenge was accepted, and a hundred and twenty-five students and citizens accompanied the team to Hartford on that day. As we knew nothing about the visiting eleven, save that they represented the largest University in the country, the uncertainty of the result made the prospect of the game exciting Our team was promptly ready for " business" at 3 o'clock ; but the Western men were half an hour late, an 'unfortunate delay, for " old Sol " would not see the game out, but skipped about the middle of the second inning, leaving us in darkness.
Referee Jencks called play at 3:35, and Saxe sent the ball flying away over the heads of the Michigan halfbacks. They tried to rush the ball back again, by excellent running; which was stopped, however, by just as fine tackling on Wesleyan's part. One after another of the " Michiganders" would start with the ball ; but the Wesleyanites," fearful lest the runner might carry the "matter" too far, would receive him with open arms, or fall on his neck, and cling like a long lost brother, which exhibition of affection generally so overcame said runner that he went down in a heap usually with a good part of our rush line on top of him. Of course Michigan returned the compliment when occasion offered. At length Saxe got in a good punt, and Michigan had to down the ball inside her 25-yard line. Blaine blocked the kick of her half-back and the ball bounded inside Michigan's goal line, where Wilcox and Blaine got it down, making the first touch-down for Wesleyan nine minutes from the start, from which Saxe kicked the first goal. The ball was soon in play again, and Michigan by a good run carried it well over to our 25-yard line, where an exact repetition of the previous play gave Michigan a touch-down. They lost the goal, however, as some of their team were off side when it was kicked. The Wesleyan men made a brace after the kick off, and again carried the play beyond their opponents 25-yard line— through good runs by Smith, '86, Blaine and Hawkins. Here the ball hovered a while, till Wilcox, taking it from another Wesleyan man, dodged through and placed it down between the goal posts of Michigan (pine). After the cheering which greeted this play had ceased, and the hats had descended, Saxe kicked our second goal. Several loose plays by Wesleyan lost them the ground, which they gained in the remaining minutes of this inning, though the "lavender and maroon " had the ball above the center of the field when time was called. The second inning opened with hard work by both elevens, and the certainty that it must needs be finished in darkness. Michigan dribbled the kick-off, but the long return of Saxe, which our rush line followed up, again forced Michigan to down the ball too near their goal for comfort. Several times their very plucky endrush tried to carry it back, but just as often was he tackled before getting far. The punting of the Wesleyan half-backs during this part of the game was very effective, as was the work of Abbott and Hawkins. Gordy also was working hard, but every time he undertook to run with the ball, the greater part of the Michiganders wanted to ride too, and as the average weight of their rush line was about 18o pounds, Gordy didn't usually travel very long distances. Michigan was playing a block game, though her men accepted every opportunity to put in a run—and every man on the team ran like a professional " ped." Wesleyan was the next to score, a neat play by Upham giving touch-down No. 3, from which Saxe failed to kick goal. It was getting dark, and the players soon found difficulty in distin-
