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...other times and in other ways very materially aided the society in the endeavors to make itself useful. We understand, also, that Mr. Ropes was influential in getting up the present course of lectures which has proved so successful and which has given the society a firmer foothold as a college society than it ever before enjoyed. To Mr. Hart, the president of the society, much praise is also due for his successful efforts in establishing such an interesting course of lectures and in arousing such a healthy interest in the history of our own country...
...colleges, and, if possible, make arrangements for some team matches. Meanwhile, if some recognized authority, like the National Rifle Association, or the Forest and Stream, or Spirit of the Times, would lend its assistance to help on the project, we think that the sport might be put on a firmer basis...
...once prevailed among many of the colleges of this country is fast dying out, and is giving way to a more just spirit of courtesy and friendly emulation. The obliteration of all differences of method is an end not at all to be desired, but the establishment of a firmer basis of agreement among all rival colleges cannot but result in good. There are one or two outcomes of the ordinary growth and experience of college faculties towards which all are tending; and one of these is the elective system, in some form or other...
...objection does not hold in regard to the running long jump, since the sod is always turned on Jarvis. The custom is for men to enter the sports without practice and to make a record worthy of a juvenile athletic association. Here are several grand opportunities of securing with firmer hold the collegiate championship cup. Let the new athletes think upon it and enter this spring, if only as an experiment. Neither of these events require much practice in comparison with those more in vogue, and they receive an equal reward...
...true and accurate these prophecies are, all who have ridden a bicycle for any length of time, who have experienced the exhilaration of whirling rapidly along in a manner which seems contrary to the laws of nature discovered by Newton, and who have felt their muscles grow firmer, their lungs stronger, and their nerves more steady by its use, can easily judge. In fact, most physicians who have raised the strongest objections to the bicycle are the very ones who have the least practical knowledge of the machine. In England, where the bicycle has been gaining rapidly in popularity since...