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...English Department would consider both papers on an equal footing. We have since learned that the Monthly has a promise from three instructors which gives it an advantage, as in the selection of themes. We much regret this mistake; it arose from a misunderstanding on our part, and we hasten to correct...
Turf, Field and Farm says: "Dr. D. A Sargent frequently interests and instructs those who hasten to or read his discourses on athletics, but the learned gentleman overstepped the mark when in a recent lecture on. The evils of the professional tendency of modern athletics," he asserted that rowing, boating, cricket and pedestrianism had their best day, and that base ball would die out before long...
...glad to see that notices for the second benefit concert of the Pierian Sodality and Glee Club are posted. The success of the concert last December was so marked that the college will hasten to support this one with even greater enthusiasm. The semi-annual combined concerts of these two societies have now become a fixture in the events of the college year, and are looked forward to with pleasure, not only by the students, but by the people of Cambridge and the surrounding towns. This interest guarantees a considerable revenue to the two musical societies, which they not only...
...usual methods known to collegians, seems the worst possible taste. While every effort is being made at present to illuminate the objectionable professional taint from college athletics, for Pennsylvania to make a move in the opposite direction is a blot on her reputation which she should hasten to wipe out by withdrawing her manifesto...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Will the time never come when boxing shall be omitted from the winter meetings? Cannot something be done to hasten this desirable time? As a recreation, or as a means of exercise, it is heartily to be commended to any who enjoy it, but when two persons are pitted against each other, before an audience of gentlemen, until one of them is so far hurt that he cannot hit as hard as his antagonist, and is consequently knocked about at pleasure, it seems as if it were carrying things too far. While there can be no possible...