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...hand, it is only with the hope of explaining the reasons for these laments that we attack the subject. It is a matter of interest to all. Everybody has had some experience with the coy willfulness of those faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody does not know...
...often on the representative authors of France? Will not the authorities take immediate measures to improve so important a department as is the German department. It should be raised at once to a level with the other departments which bring credit to our university, instead of being allowed to linger on in this lackadaisical way, under no responsible management, and giving instruction that is inefficient and unsatisfactory...
...created in student life. That reverence and love which religion, if of any meaning, must inspire, would be preserved, instead of being, as at present, foolishly and blindly wasted. The very manliness of a nobler ideal would ripen into nobler lives. The memories of such a service would linger in every mind and heart. The finer and subtler influences emanating from it would profoundly affect every life...
...final and deciding game between the Druids and Harvard, the Druids were tired from their exertions of the previous hour, but still played with pluck and vigor. The ball was constantly thrown from one end of the field to the other, and showed no inclination to linger at either goal; but on five different occasions when it was near the Druids' goal, the fine playing of the Harvard attack forced it through the flags, while the Druid attack was unable to score at all. Harvard's superior system of attack alone won the game. Before the game, Capt. Penniman...
...would be useless to open anew a discussion as to its justice. No one desires to see a higher tone in college athletics more than we, nor would any be more pleased to see some sensible change by which any taint of professionalism which may still linger in them could be removed...