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...energies of the Yale Polo Club seemed to have relapsed into a dormant condition. If Harvard is to be vanquished this season it is time for them to shake off their lethargy.-[Yale Record...
...weeks to elect two editors from the freshman class, if we can find candidates who show sufficient ability in their contributions. We regret that as yet we have seen little evidence of this ability, but we still hope that the ability in question is not wanting, but only dormant. It is true that we have received several contributions which have been satisfactory, but we do not feel called upon to make our choice of editors from such a small number of competitors. We therefore hope that the members of '88 will awake to the fact that the college papers have...
...that the Canoe Club has inaugurated its career by a successful regatta, it ought not to allow the interest in the sport to become dormant. It would be a good plan to arrange for one or two cruises up the Charles River, or else down the harbor, before the close of the year. There is nothing more pleasant than a day spent in paddling, and we feel sure that if the club were to try the experiment of a cruise, it would be found successful...
...places on the college teams. Unfortunately he mistakes the strength of the few college clubs which now exist, and overestimates the amount of interest taken in shooting among American students. At present the clubs for shooting which have been formed are leading a precarious existence, or are altogether dormant, and they cannot be at once aroused from their lethargy. It is significant, in this connection, that Harvard has been so long without a shooting club: and now that one has been formed at last, it can only be made to succeed by the most careful management. In course of time...
ITHACA, Nov. 13, 1882. The spirit of progress is still the vital principle at Cornell. Animated by this spirit, which has pushed our youthful university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with...