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...meets every Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock in a hall on North Grove street, hired by St. Augustine's Church. The meeting lasts until 9 o'clock. There are about twenty-five young colored boys in it, ranging from the age of twelve to sixteen. Every evening a half-hour or so is given up to drilling and after that games are played, and when necessary a business meeting is held...
...place, the early practice of some three weeks is taken not from the studies of the player but from his summer vacation. October and November are the only months where in he is both playing football and studying. During the first of these his practicing usually consists of two half-hours in the afternoon. In November he may be required, in addition to this, to go through signals for a half-hour in the morning, and, towards the end, in the evening also. It is easy to see that the actual time occupied is, therefore, far from excessive. But during...
Since the Christmas vacation, the junior crew candidates have been at work very assiduously every afternoon going through the regular routine of dumb-bell exercise, a half-hour's work at the rowing-weights, and a brisk run of from three to ten miles. Up to last Saturday, over twenty men had it in their mind's eye to row in the '93 boat next May; but on Saturday, the ambitions of several of these were unavoidably thwarted and at present exactly sixteen men are left in the lottery for places, - that is, sixteen men exclusive of Capt. Burgess...
...BURGESS.YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. - The regular half-hour Sunday devotional meeting is held tomorrow evening at 6.30 o'clock. All students are cordially invited to attend...
Monday, in German 2, Professor Francke begins a series of half-hour lectures on Lessing's life...