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...stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which the victim sank deeper the more he struggled. If the college could furnish to the passer bathing suits, or even a raft, the trouble would be obviated, but as it is we can only cry to the Lares of our grandmother as we cross the seething flood...
...cinders to the depth of an inch has been put on the track, and it will be two or three days before it will be in condition for running, and probably a fortnight before bicyclists can venture on it. Prof. Shaler says that Holmes Field was formerly a peat bog, which accounts for its extreme slowness in drying up in the spring. The Tennis Association has already begun laying out the new courts. The ground back of the Law School building has been broken for the clay courts. Occasionally during the vacation men have been playing tennis on Jarvis...
...this connection, the words of the late venerable Amos Lawrence have emphatic significance. "The difference," he says, "between going just right or a little wrong will be the difference of finding yourself in good quarters or in a miserable bog or slough at the end of your journey through life." This principle of justice carried out religiously through the space of thirty years, made Amos Lawrence one of our most wealthy and honored citizens. "I made it a rule," he says, "to have property to represent forty per cent more than I owed"; and, following out this rule, he rose...