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Result of Matches.PLAYED 9. WON 4. LOST 3. DRAWN...
...piece of prose in the number is a short description "By the Banks of the San Sebastian." It is only half a page long, and therefore its wit has a soul. It is a pen picture, carefully but vividly drawn of a tragedy by moonlight in a Spanish city and, to avail ourselves of technical language, we would say that the connotation of every sentence and paragraph is admirable...
...unfortunate error was made in this column recently when speaking of some statistics about the numbers in this year's freshman class. Comparing the number of men drawn by the classes now in college from the west in their freshman years it was said that the number of western men in '95 is 50, while the number in '94 was 38, in '93 it was 34, and in '92 was 60. Of course this last number was a mistake; the number of western men in '92 when the class entered college was 39, and this is what it was intended...
...Ohio, and on the Mississippi north of and including Missouri it is seen that the support has been increasing for the last two years. '93 contributed 30 men from these States, '94 contributed 34, and '95 contributes 39. With the exception of '92 no previous class has drawn more than 30 men from this part of the country. Combining these States with the farther West, it will be seen that '95's contribution from these sources is 50, while that of '94 was 38, and that of '93 was 34. '92 only contributed...
...drawn to city life, he said, by the power found there to build up a world for oneself out of nature. All living things build themselves up out of their surroundings, but man's world is much greater and more complex than that of any animal. This new world is the product of man's reason. But can man himself be shown to be a natural product? There are arguments which point that way, but we cannot prove that human action is always in accordance with natural laws, and the results of man's action are sometimes so evil that...