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...forward to by the students. It was, however, more fortunate that the marshal in charge was able to postpone it until a more favorable opportunity. No one would have relished marching in such a rain storm as we had last night, and yet all would have been loath to forego the pleasures anticipated from this great event which comes but once in a lifetime. We can only wait and hope that the weather on Monday evening will be all that could be desired and shall then expect to see the college turn out en masse and enjoy itself...
...water in some ordinary Whitehall or lapstreak boat for an afternoon's pull, which gave them not only splendid exercise, but also a great amount of pleasure. When these men enter college, some, of course, obtain seats in their class boats, but the great majority are obliged to forego their favorite sport until the summer vacation, merely from the lack of opportunity for exercise afforded by our present boating arrangements...
...gymnasium taking their regular exercise the weights can not be approached, as a usual thing, because some crew or nine is at work there. Consequently, all the other men have to delay their exercise an unnecessary length of time to get a chance at the weights or else forego the use of them entirely. The trouble is largely caused by the baseball men. The crews succeed each other in regular order and so only occupy a limited number of weights at a time; but the nines come up from the cage at the busiest time, while the crews are using...
...natural desire of youth for an eccentric and somewhat heterogeneous diet, is the honor system which by holding out a bauble, induces the inconstant youth to adopt a more rational and regular course of intellectual food, much as an indulgent mother persuades her darling boy to eat meat and forego pie by promising him a new rocking-horse. He may eat pie if he chooses and follow it up with a course of equally indigestable pastries, but in that case he will get no rocking-horse. The Harvard youth may, by forfeiting his claim on the Harvard bauble, which happens...
...special students is also a new feature in the same general line as those just mentioned. Any person can now come to college and avail himself of all the privileges of a regular student without being obliged to take the required course. The only thing such a man must forego is the degree and the mention of his name in the Quinquennial Catalogue - the last surely no great hardship...