Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SKATING.Why can't the Athletic Association give some skating-races this winter, and so help to fill up the dull season? A course could be easily laid out, on Fresh Pond or some other neighboring water, of say a straight quarter-mile, and races of a mile, half-quarter, hundred yards, etc., could be easily given. If the H. A. A. will do so, the editor of this column will give a $ 10 cup for a race of quarter-mile heats, best two in three. Such a race should furnish good sport, and fast time would doubtless be made...
...words. I hope some time to hear just such another concert, and I am sure your Faculty will never regret having given up their old Puritanical ideas that used to forbid Glee Club concerts, for such fine-looking, gentlemanly representatives as we saw here last night could n't help giving a favorable impression of your college anywhere...
...abuse from the Advocate, there must be either a remarkable sensitiveness to criticism or else a great lack of subjects for editorials. In the latter case I am glad to have furnished a slight stimulus to the laggard editorial pen; in the former case perhaps a slight explanation will help allay the indignation I have unwittingly excited...
...Yale Literary Magazine in the number for November publishes its prize essay, "Aspasia: the Study of a Portrait." The judges were Yale professors, and we cannot help thinking how different would have been the fate of the essay had it fallen into the clutches of our Bowdoin Prize Committee. Its substance is excellent, but its style would have been fatal to it here...
...possible, a large second edition. Justice will thus be done to our subscribers, and all who desire will be able to obtain a copy of the H. A. A.'s constitution. While we regret that any person should have been even temporarily inconvenienced in obtaining his paper, we cannot help rejoicing at so evident a proof of the rapidly increasing interest in athletic sports...