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...events, we invite the co-operation of all outsiders in college to this end. We are sure that all will be repaid for any trouble they may take by finding in this column a news summary more extensive and more original than is possible in a weekly, and fresher than is possible in a fortnightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/21/1882 | See Source »

...their practice records. Thus in pole-vaulting, the bar was started at six feet and slowly raised to nine; and in the running high jump the tambourine was raised so slowly that at the highest points men were visibly unable to make the efforts they could have made when fresher. The correspondent suggests that the changes should be made more rapidly, or that the start should be made at a higher point. In such a question there are, of course, arguments pro and con, and it would be impossible to satisfy all by fixing any definite point. There is, indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/3/1882 | See Source »

...still it is of course impossible for every one to be satisfied in a matter of this kind. The speeches are limited to five minutes, so that the decisions may be expected by half past nine. The speaking is thought to be better than the average, and the pieces fresher and more interesting; the Juniors, however, are said to be not so good as could be wished. It has been decided that hereafter Juniors shall speak first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

STUDENTS of Rhetoric may well congratulate themselves because, instead of being obliged to glean from the antiquated pages of Campbell and puzzle over the blind theories of Whately, they have all that is valuable in these two writers, and much that is important and fresher brought together in an inviting volume of less than three hundred pages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICE. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...hero I have still in store. He is the dropped man. How we all envy the abandon with which he leans back in his seat and chuckles over a French novel! He always has the French novel, and he never has the lesson. When he is called upon, we fresher Freshmen know that the clever answer will be, "I have no books, sir, -am quite unprepared, -really. know nothing whatever about the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SECTION. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

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