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...about eighty students waiting to be admitted to the Dining Association. It has seemed the better policy to the management, to refuse to receive any more members than can be conveniently provided for, than by rearranging the tables, or using the same seat twice to accommodate all and satisfy none. The cooking and serving apparatus is already taxed to its utmost capacity...
...only have undergone a rigid and severe course of discipline, but must have also acquired a uniformity of style, which is itself the result of long and constant training. Regularity and precision of stroke are essential conditions of success. Many methods have been adopted to secure these advantages, but none of them have proved particularly precise or accurate. Recently, however, a device has been resorted to among professional oarsmen which bids fair to accomplish the desired end. Photographs of crews in motion have been taken by the instantaneous process, and so clearly brought out to the minutest detail, that fair...
...this will avail little unless every student does his utmost to help the committee. In leaving the yard with a pass do not give it to any of the host of "objectionables" who throng outside the gates, eager for a chance to enter; again, be sure time none of these creatures pass themselves off as belonging to your party. To obviate this last evil, which in the past has been a prolific cause of trouble, the committee have decided that a yard ticket shall admit a gentleman and but two ladies. If the committee succeed in shutting off this "supply...
...Already the thoughts of college men are directed earnestly toward the races which takes place next month between Harvard and Columbia, and Harvard and Yale. Good reports come from all the crews; but none seem to be in better condition than the 'Varsity Eight of Columbia. They are an especially fine lot of young fellows in appearance, and their friends will be grieviously disappointed if they do not give a good account of themselves in their contest against Harvard-so good, indeed, that Harvard will be left far behind. Their chances for victory are more than fair, as will...
Among all the difficulties that the young aspirant for a college course has to encounter-and the number is by no 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...