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...understand that Corcoran and Derby have been corresponded with about training the men, but as yet no answer has been received from them. There is some talk about fixing up the old ball ground on the campus, by taking off the turf and loam, and filling in with hard gravel on the infield; but, in as much as this has been spoken of about every year, we presume that the turf will still retain its place on the ball ground...
Estimated amply, the Yard contains 2 1/8 miles of gravel-walks, including carriage-roads. At present prices, sufficient lumber for a thirty-inch walk, of the above length, can be bought for $550, $600 would cover the new walks to Sever and any incidentals. If, then, the donation of the College Fund were made conditional upon spending $600 for board-walks, the purpose in view would be accomplished in a manner unobjectionable to the Corporation...
...trouble themselves enough about you to discover that you are working hard; and as long as you are not caught at it, the more work you do, the better. There is a rather popular theory at college, that all exertion ought to come under the same head. Study and gravel-digging are both dubbed "work," and work of any sort is thought "ungentlemanly," - a horrid word, by the way, which you ought never to use. A man who is always ready for everything, however, is rarely suspected of being a worker. And you will find before long that almost everything...