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...friendly rivalry, on lake and river, on base-ball and football fields, and in the various sports of field-day. Anxious parents and learned faculties look on, the while, half joyfully, half sorrowfully; now with the wild enthusiasm, shouting 'well done, boys, for Alma Mater,' now anxiously scanning the nut-brown players, if may be to discover some lurking bodily ill, some bookish imperfection which the annual newspaper squib alleges must be the sad ending of all such folly. Fortunately for the general welfare, however, these allegations are sensational, being founded on isolated cases of imperfection, and worked...
President Eliot's annual report shows that the elective system has not hurt the classics, and that some of the most difficult studies are the most popular. Here is a nut for those to crack who believe that an undergraduate knows nothing and is criminally lazy.- Brunonian...
...time to time during the past half dozen years the introduction of the game of cricket into our colleges has been under discussion. At first the subject was looked upon as a problem, but there stood ready in several of our largest universities those who proposed to crack the nut. In Philadelphia the leading clubs took the matter in hand and did much to encourage the proposition. At last, about three years ago, the Intercollegiate Cricket Association was organized, and the initial meeting, which was held in New York, was attended by representatives from Harvard, Trinity of Hartford, Princeton, University...
...liquid, melting ringlets over her high and classic forehead; her eyes were wavy and dreamy in their expression; she had a fascinating little "nez retrousse," and teeth of pearly whiteness; her lips were ruddy, and appeared tempting in the soft sunlight; her hands were of a delicately shaded nut-brown tint; and, as for her figure, it was divine. Withal she was of a poetic bent, and had often written verses for the Watchman. Eighteen summers and as many winters had passed over her head. But enough of this...
...rather loudly, and brushed his hair over his ears in a peculiar way which led Tootsy to think that some one had been pulling it. She told him of this in her frank way. He laughed, and answered, "It's quite the ta-ta thing." Tootsy opened her hazel-nut orbs in astonishment, and said, "You use some kind of hair preparation." This would have floored an ordinary man, but the representative of '84 went on undisturbed. "I never bat; in fact, none of my class-mates do." "Ah!" said she, in her sweet, coy way, "you have no Freshman...