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...Gymnasium will be finished in March if the weather permits the workmen to get the roof on before the first heavy fall of snow. If not, the interior will not be finished until next summer...
...second forensic of the first half of the Senior Class is due on the first Tuesday in January. Subject: "Is Conscience Infallible?" References: Hodgson's "Theory of Practice," Grote's "Moral Ideals," Cobbe's "Intuitive Morals," Stewart's "Active and Moral Power," Butler's "Ethical Discourses," "Treatises on Moral Philosophy" (Stewart's, Paley's, Wayland's, Hopkins's Peabody's). The second half of the class hand in their forensic on the second Tuesday in January. Subject: "Does an oath enhance one's obligation to tell the truth or to keep a promise?" References: (affirmative) most of the books named...
...Wednesday, the 13th inst., the Freshmen Eleven played their third match of the season, at Andover, against the Phillips Academy Eleven. The game was very close during the first "three-quarters," '82 getting one touch-down through good passing and a fine rush by Crehore. In the next "three-quarters," Crehore and Manning each secured two touch-downs; and from one of them a goal was kicked. Sedgwick kicked a goal from the field, thus making the score two goals and four touch-downs for '82, to nothing for Andover. The playing of Crehore, Manning, Sedgwick, and Williams...
Game was called a little after 2.30, Harvard having the upper end of the field. Warren kicked off well for Harvard, and, thanks to our rushers, the ball remained at Princeton's end for the first few minutes. Princeton soon rallied, however, and slowly worked the ball to the middle of the field; soon the ball was near our goal-line, then was held down, and an instant after was behind our line. Sedgwick and Loney both touched the ball; Harvard claimed that Sedgwick had touched the ball down, but, as Loney held it on the ground after Sedgwick...
UNDER the able management of Mr. Winsor, the Library, which formerly was a subject for much needed or needless complaint, deserves little save praise. The changes he has introduced, though sometimes at first disliked, have always proved advantageous, and have shown that he regards the success of the Library as identical with its utility to the students. Still, there are other changes apparently desirable to which we would like to call attention. It seems some-what remarkable that a library which expends $15,000 annually in purchasing books should, nevertheless, oblige students to raise by subscription the $300 needed...