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...their practice games this year the team must not be content with making points itself, but it must see that the other teams make none. Vigilance in guarding against accidents is of the utmost importance, and the carefulness and steadiness of play they will acquire in consequence will be their greatest hope for making a good record in the championship games...
Among the various sports shich have lately sprung into existence in this country, there is none that promises to become more popular or to give more satisfaction to those who engage in it than canoeing. After an existence of scarcely more than a dozen years on this side of the water, it has taken a firm hold, and the number of its devotees is rapidly increasing. Combining, as it does, the requisites of exercise, amusement, and excitement, it offers strong inducements to lovers of out-door sports. The popularity of the sport is shown by the existence of the American...
...curriculum of study while compulsory is equal to any which could be pursued by any one student at Harvard, and the teaching is of an exceptionally high standard. Many pretty college stories are told by the students to their visitors and none more often than that one referring to the great popularity of the present president. It was once asked if Wellesley was denominational. Yes, was the answer, the students are Roman Catholics. What, Roman Catholics? Yes, they worship the virgin...
There are a certain number of ancient customs yet in vogue here at Harvard-nobody knows just why-which it would be well to do away with as soon as possible; and among these "antiques" there is none perhaps which needs attention more than the ringing of the "rising bell." There seems to be absolutely no reason why it should be rung day by day, except the fact that it has been rung each morning from time immemorial, while there are many reasons for silencing its loud-sounding tongue until chapel time. It is first not a rising bell...
Among the most curious of the fantastic celebrations, burials and burnings which college undergraduates are wont to disport themselves with after the completion of some dreaded course in the curriculum, none is more worthy of notice than the "Burial of Legendre" which the Columbia sophomores perform annually with great pomp and circumstance. Not one of the least peculiar circumstances connected with the burial is the fact that it takes place in the great city of New York amid the bustle and hurry of Metropolitan life, while the people look on and wonder at the strange doings of the jolly...