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GLEE CLUB. - The hour on which the Glee Club starts for Bradford this afternoon will be posted on the shingle before noon. Please look out for it. Those men who are unable to accompany the club must notify the president in season...
...should be an extra incentive to be victorious over her in the base-ball field. It is rumored that the Yale freshmen have some unusually good material and that they are doing everything to retrieve their losses of last fall. If this be true, you will have to look sharp to your laurels, else they will be snatched away. Emulate the example which has been set you by '89. Be not content with one victory over Yale, but win both ball games. Strict attention to duty and implicit obedience to your captain are the only means of arriving...
...losing ground. It has been overshadowed by its sister across the street. When the school was founded by the bequest of the Lawrences our college was narrow and saw no propriety in allowing a wide variety of study to the undergraduate. To obtain advance: science it was necessary to look beyond the college; and then it was that the Lawrence school had a wide and useful sphere. That it occupied a front rank among its fellows can be seen by referring to the earlier catalogues where the names of our leading scientists of to-day will be found registered...
...that we shall have a vacation to begin in December and continue through the winter (!), but it is conjecture only, tho' I think with a great degree of probability; for I am sure it will be impossible for us to remain here during the winter. For you can not look a man in the face without a dollar, board four dollars a week, candles one-half pr. lb., wine and rum which we have quite done with, the one 14s, the other 10s. pr. bottle, and everything in propotion, and continually rising; to what height I can't tell...
...athletics did not begin to have the prominence in American life that they have hell since. There were no great athletic clubs - as we look at them to-day - few if any cinder paths, no good stop watches, and no accredited timers. How are we to wonder, then, that all sorts of unreliable and preposterous records were accepted as good, on the word of half a dozen interested "sports?" Read, for instance, these gems of the collection mentioned above, which after all is a very incomplete...