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...would remind those members of Ninety-three who have not given their orders for caps and gowns of the notice of the Class Day Committee. According to this, Friday will be the last chance to be measured and it is important that the delinquent ones should bestir themselves. It is almost inconceivable that any senior is deliberately planning to do without these necessary accompaniments of graduation. The mere thought of the figure a few solitary men in ordinary clothes would cut in the presence of their classically attired friends on, Class Day and Commencement is enough to keep...
...seems to be necessary every year for the annual wait to be raised in your columns before the H. A. A. management will bestir itself to start the hare and hound runs. Everyone acknowledges the benefits of these runs for all branches of athletics, and they are always well attended. This October weather is the very best time in the year for them, and I hope that they may be soon begun, before all the good weather is gone...
...time has come for the college to bestir itself and settle this question-not in some hastily-called meeting, but with deliberation and thought. Do not let us drift into a dual league through mere inertia. It cannot but have a bad effect on the country at large. Statistics show that our prestige is waning; it is a serious moment for us, a time to throw off our indifference and meet the question squarely...
...other crews show a great deal of energy in getting ready for the class races and the senior crew will have to bestir themselves in order to do themselves justice...
...varsity glee club. Either from an inherent modesty or from pure laziness and selfishness, but very few freshmen paid any attention to the the appeal. Now a freshman banjo club is in progress of formation and the members of '92 still persist in refusing to bestir themselves. Class feeling and class pride, in so far as to equal if not excel the record of preceding classes, whether in athletics, literary work or musical or social organizations, seems to find little nourishment among the members of the freshman class. Despite the efforts made to form a freshman banjo club, through lack...