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...fails to get on his freshman nine seldom tries to play ball again during his college course. Of those who actually play in their freshman nine, none but the better players generally try for the university in their sophomore year, and few of these who fail on the first trial have courage and perseverance enough to make a second attempt. The list of those who have thus kept on trying after the sophomore year, is, though small, a brilliant one and affords sufficient answer to those who say that if a man has and base-ball in him he will...
...Crosby does not believe in developing the muscles as well as the brain. Dr. McCosh is an intelligent man, but on the subject of physical culture he is as far from the golden mean as the man who advocates the other extreme. Excessive athletic exercise is as injurious as none at all, and the error of the president of Princeton College is shared by many people. We are told by the learned professors that occasionally a student suffers some slight injury in the gymnasium which for a day or two necessitates absence from the class room, but nothing is ever...
...about, that is not until the challenge had been accepted in the usual manner. And this is certainly reasonable, for why should a lot of men get together to discuss something about which there is no certainty, something which, indeed, may be a well founded supposition, yet which is none the less a supposition...
...Virginia paper says that William and Mary College at Williamsburg has entirely gone down. Last year there was only one student, this year none. The president has a splendid residence just out of town, and the buildings are quiet and lonely looking and seem to hide within their walls much of wisdom, but this is all that is left of the once proud seat of learning...
...Shea; vice-president, Joseph Daly; secretary, Thomas F. Gallagher; treasurer, Frank J. McCarthy." What deep-laid conspiracy the "Harvard Associates" may be plotting is not known; neither are the motives of revenge which induced them to wilfully pilfer Harvard's venerable name. But the outrage of the act is none the less flagrant. Perhaps the Howard Associates will prosecute them for infringement of trade-mark...