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...means a small one-none can be said to give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures and distractions that surround him. Study which is such a hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving...
...this crew were greatly underrated. At all events we may congratulate ourselves upon the prospect of witnessing a race that is a race, today, if the weather favors us, for, barring accidents, the proficiency of all the crews is such as to render anything like a "procession" well nigh an impossibility...
...bowling alleys are well nigh deserted...
...whipped in foot ball, the chief fall sport, and even in tennis we bend the knee to our victorious rival, Yale. If as we sincerely hope, defeats are the best incentives to victories, our teams must have received enough incentive during the last few months to make them well nigh invincible for many years to come. For the present let us live on in the hope that this theory of incentives may have some foundation in fact as well as in fancy...
...Tufts gymnasium has been completed, but the fee for admission to its benefits is such that it is well nigh deserted by the students...