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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forming an "Interscholastic Base-Ball League." The league is designed to include Phillips, Exeter, Phillips Andover, St. Pauls, St. Marks, and Adams Academies and the Boston Latin School. To those interested in base-ball in the colleges, no move could be more welcome than this; for it would mean a redoubled interest in base-ball for the preparatory schools, which would necessarily result in an excellence hitherto unknown. A systematic schedule of games, and a friendly rivalry for the base-ball championship of the inter-scholastic league, would of necessity prove beneficial to the preparatory schools as well...
...nine, however, it has not had the advantage of such a talk as was given by Mr. Kiernan last year in regard to the proper method of using the library. No doubt that gentleman can be prevailed upon to repeat his remarks in the near future, and in the mean time all information desired by anyone is readily obtained at the desk...
...Kimball, assisted by Adams, '86. Of course they played in no form, but they show a determination to do all that was in their power to revive the game. By Monday the field will be marked out, and everything will be in readiness for hard work. In the mean time practice will...
...part he has taken in its meetings has been of more practical value than any course in the college curriculum. In the past the great trouble has been the easy way with which membership to the society could be secured. To remedy this evil and to make membership mean something more than it has in the past, certain qualifications will in the future be required. For the benefit of the new members of the college, we shall, before the first regular debate, publish a brief outline of the history and the aims of the society, together with the qualifications...
...truism at every college that the best examinee does not always mean the best man. Instances are ready at hand where a second-class man is acknowledged to be better than a first-class man, and I have often heard it remarked that "it is a fluke for the right man to get a fellowship...