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Colonel Dodge's lecture was most entertaining and called out the largest audience ever seen in Sever 11. He often received applause for his witty sallies and gave in the middle of his description of the battle a short extract from his own diary which gave additional life and interest to the discourse. As is now generally admitted Gettysburg was the turning point of the war. The Southern troops, before almost never defeated and always confident of success, after it fighting only because they knew not how to submit...
...Extract from Art. XI. of the by-laws of the Athletic Association...
...following extract is taken from a comment in the Science Monthly on a conversation between two learned European scholars. Professor Struve said that "this conclusion had been drawn independently by so many differently circumstanced men in the Russian and German-Baltic provinces, from the general impressions which their recollections gave them, that there could be little doubt of its containing much truth-truth, too, of a startling character: the first boys at school disappear at the colleges, and those who are first in the colleges disappear in the world. I am not sure that a similar conclusion would not follow...
...present below the following extract from an editorial in the Princetonian. It voices the opinions which a great many persons now hold in regard to the importance of the position of referee in a Rugby foot-ball game : "To those who have watched the development of the game in recent years, the inefficiency of the most stringent regulations governing the conduct of the players would have occasioned no surprise. The Harvard game, in New York, was only a practical illustration of the fact that rules will not make a player a gentleman, if he naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact...
...their auspices. Those, also, are usually interesting and well attended." We suppose these societies still exist, but no visible evidence of their existence has been offered to the public for some time. Mr. Winkley gives a great deal more information about Harvard but we will close with the following extract. "As to the immoral customs of Harvard, it has been the writer's privilege to see the inside life of most of the New England colleges, and it is said with pleasure that, in an intercourse with Harvard men for the past five years, there has been observed less...