Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George M. Gray, of the New York Athletic Club, has beaten all former records by putting the shot 43 feet 11 inches...
...custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable if we do not frown upon it. For what consequence is our little excitement in comparison with the cause of an honorable course on the athletic field? We believe with Mr. Wendell on this subject as we did on the former, this a reform by the students, the other a recognition by the faculty, that our best interests can be served by granting us freedom in the choice of our competitions. Which will make the first step...
...other pieces are "Venus Victa" and "The Message." The former is not as successful an effort as the "Venus Victrix" of the same author, and in this, perhaps, lies its chief fault. It should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...
...Lampoon's cover was changed into a cheap copy of that of Life. In fact, the whole paper is apparently aiming to reproduce a Lampoonized edition of Life, its style of pictures, its jokes (?) and its clippings. Why the Lampoon, which was the father of Life, and in former days was conceded to be its superior in originality and wit, if not in the execution of its pictures, should now turn about and remodel itself after the pattern of its offspring is a puzzling question. It has been said that the changes made will induce a larger sale outside...
Marland Cogswell Hobbs, '85, the winner of the Sumner prize for graduates, was a former president of the CRIMSON board...