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...college student, these gentlemen maintain that there is no practical course other than connection with a college paper, and they strongly advise connection with some outside daily at the time. A man should learn to know what he wants to say, and then say it in the clearest and fewest possible words. Good practice is obtained by reporting events for pleasure and comparing with the newspaper accounts. Much attention should be given to Law, History, and English Literature, as well as the other subjects mentioned by Mr. Reid...
...decide the date of a freshman game between Harvard and Yale is always a difficult matter, because one of the few dates remaining after the university schedule has been made must be the one chosen. Knowing this, the freshmen managers ought to select the date which offers the fewest objections. To the dates proposed by Yale, '88, there have been, it seems to us, sufficient objections submitted by our freshman, Yale, '88 objects to playing on Thanksgiving for good reasons, but not a single objection has been offered by them to the 29th. As Harvard, '88, is forbidden by faculty...
...their number. Songs are sung in the yard, punch is drank, and then the procession is formed for the alumni dinner, the classes ranking in the order of their graduation, - and it has been happily said that he has the best chance for dinner who has the fewest teeth...
...books are examined and the mistakes marked without the instructor's knowing, in a single instance, whose book he examines. The names are written on a slip of paper, with the number of mistakes each has made. Then the man with fewest mistakes, say six, is given the highest mark, say 98%. This is almost exactly the relation the best man's mistakes and per cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose...
...give below the score of the rifle-match last Saturday. The last two innings were shot in order to decide a tie; but as they failed in this the game was to the Cambridge team, as they had made fewest outers...