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...athletics. A trainer is to be obtained who will have a regular salary, to which the Athletic Association will be expected to contribute. Moreover, the association will undoubtedly be involved in new expenses in helping to forward the plan of the new athletic grounds. It is not often that the action of the Athletic Association is criticized, and, when a just criticism has been brought up, it has always received careful consideration. In this case the college has had no means of knowing the extra expenses that the association will be obliged to meet, and the dissatisfaction which has been...
...year. The catch is firm and sharp, and the time in general is good, although there are one or two men who are apt to get tired, and break up the uniformity of the stroke. The slides are held very well, with a few exceptions. Seven's time is often poor, and bow has not yet settled into an easy motion...
...gentleman, however, who signed on the 2d of July, 1838, evidently appreciated the honor of being the "first visitor" to Harvard College, so that we can still read with pleasure that his name was Thomas, and that he came from near Dublin, Ireland. The details in this volume are often very curious. One married lady from Russia, with amiable reverence for truth, gives her maiden name in full. Something of the same spirit possessed the party of eight young ladies and gentlemen, who record that they were "locked in." The oblivion of youth heeded not the page's cry, "Library...
...announcement of the coming annual meeting of the Co-operative Society calls up the question of what the society has done for us in the first year of its existence. We too often hear students affirming that the prices given by the Co-operative Society are no lower than those in the Cambridge stores. Now, in the first place, this is in a large number of instances not the case, and where it is true the society is obviously the cause, and no one can doubt that its existence is necessary to keep the prices down. Such criticisms...
...instructor, the dean and the president : that he did not write his theme until the next day after reading mine; that he did not copy mine; and this statement I confirmed; that he had a somewhat remarkable verbal memory which had been trained in various ways, until it often worked unconsciously; that he had no knowledge that the themes were so nearly alike until informed of it by the instructor. The instructor and the dean expressed their belief in the truth of his explanation. But it come out in the course of the investigation that the faculty are very much...