Word: home
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Home Journal, published every Saturday, is now containing a series of papers which should be read by every college man who has an interest in the welfare of his country. The articles are entitled "The New (National) Education" and are signed "An Ex-college President...
...begin until the middle of Easter week. Why could not the faculty be induced to let us have the whole of Easter week? To those of us who live away from Boston, it is a pleasant thing to be able to pass Easter and the following week at home. Besides it makes a very fair break in the time between January 1st and July 1st. The proposal seems to meet with great favor among many of the undergraduates, and there seems to be no strong reason why it should not be adopted by the faculty. Easter-tide is almost...
...that the spring vacation be changed so as to include Easter Sunday. The suggestion is a good one, and the adoption of it would be a boon to such of us as live in other cities than Boston. Those who live here all the year round can be at home on Easter Day. But it is not so with the others. If we remember aright, when the suggestion to lengthen the Christmas recess was brought up last year, the faculty replied that the power lay not in their hands, but in those of the overseers. Our correspondent has done well...
...candidates were compelled to waste nearly a month, although Capt. Wagenhurst had his men at work in the gym as much as possible. The cage is not large enough to have first and third laid out, and so the men practise batting, base running and throwing from home to first and second principally without having a whole infield. Our great difficulty this year will be the lack of a catcher, and so every effort is being put forth to develop one from the material at hand, which is to say the least but poor. Ames, '90, the half-back...
...President John Bascom, of the U. of Wisconsin, who has returned to his old home in Williamstown to engage in literary work, has been added to the Williams faculty as lecturer on sociology, and will deliver a course of lectures on that subject to the senior class...