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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this time we find base-ball enthusiasm in all colleges at a high pitch. The Hamilton paper I have alluded to before, prints a lurid editorial on the subject: "Wake up, ballers! Make Hamilton shine this year. Make ball playing red hot! . . . . Our practice here don't amount to shucks! We are lazy and self-conceited; and we had better not practice at all than practice as we do. . . .One and all, wake...
...disagreeable but also threatens the good health of all of us who room there. The cause of this nuisance is undoubtedley the poor condition of the drainage, and if it is not immediately repaired, diptheria and the other diseases which are prevalent at this season of the year will find this south entry a most convenient place to settle. There has already been a marked amount of sickness this winter in this entry, and strangely enough all have been ailing in the same manner. At first this increase of sickness was supposed to be due to the unseasonable weather which...
...editor upon any one of our college papers certainly brings more than its due reward in the pleasure and experience gained. Therefore, eighty-nine, let us all hear more from you; you have a large field to pick from in the four Harvard papers and your ideas can find expression somewhere if they are worth reading, whether merry light, grave, or newsy. And, ninety, let this same paternal reprimand fall deep into your timid hearts; for what has been said of eighty-nine applies to you as well...
...first of these arguments is plainly weak. It is easy to see that an instructor might find several examination books (say, for example, four) the difference in worth between any two of which might not exceed one per cent., yet of which the best clearly belonged in class a, the worst in class b. He must then decide into which class to put the two intermediate books. Whether he puts both in a, both in b, or one in each of these classes, he has to make a distinction quite as fine as any under the old system. The result...
...glad that card-playing is not prevalent at Bates. Such an operation may do for gamblers and black legs, but for honest, intelligent young men, it is not the thing. It may do for the starved in soul and intellect, but college students should find some amusement better fitted to their station than shuffling a pack of greasy cards. - Ex. And this too, from a Western college paper...