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...Though it can hardly be said that out-door sports will be fully inaugurated until after the April recess, yet the first formal athletic event of general interest to the entire university is today's gymnastic exhibition; with it "ye Harvard men" shake off the lethargy of the winter, cull out their first holiday, and flock in festive throngs to admire and applaud the prowess and industry of their brother athletes. The great examination in Gymnastics 1, advanced sections, is posted on today's bulletin, and universal expectation is that marks will run commendably high...
STRUCK by the beauty and usefulness of the Notes and Queries in the Library, too long neglected and left to impart their usefulness to a few favored souls, the Crimson has decided to give due prominence to this unnoticed branch of instruction and to cull a few gems from this rich treasure-house. Some of the paper's ardent supporters have favored us with some of the great questions of the time, and the gigantic brain of the undergraduate has wrestled with a number of them...
...print the decalogue in gaudy colors on pocket-handkerchiefs and express them to the South Sea Islanders, utterly oblivious to the fact that the islanders aforesaid were unprovided with spring suits, and, consequently, with upper left outside breast-pockets. It is not in cruelty, not in wrath, that I cull from Mr. Dwight's cerebral convolutions a few of the flowerets that grow between; they shall be transplanted to bloom in a superior flower-pot above, - it is needless to say that I refer to the Crimson...
What can be done towards restoring method and completeness to art, towards making our murders more worthy of a civilized and cultivated people? To this question I answer, first, and most important, we can cull from the experience of the past a few simple, but universally necessary principles to guide the murderer in the formation and execution of his design. Such I consider the following to be: The death must be inflicted cleanly; unnecessary cruelty must be avoided; the artist must escape undetected after he has given the last touch to his work...