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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ALARMING rumors have of late been circulating among us, in regard to certain proposed encroachments on the privileges of the students in Jarvis Field. The old shanty, it was reported, and the seats, were to be removed, the land to be graded even with the road, and restrictions to be placed on ball-playing and the other athletic games, of a nature to seriously cripple the interests of these sports. As usual, these reports have greatly exaggerated the facts, and we are glad to be able to present the true state of the case as gathered from official sources...
...Corporation promised that the price of board should not be greater than it had been at the Thayer Club, the only improvements the new club could promise were a beautiful hall instead of an old, tumble-down railroad-depot, neat and trained negro-waiters instead of untidy Irish women, and the prospect of food somewhat better than at the old Commons, owing to the increase in the numbers of the club, and to the skill and experience of a professional steward. In respect of all these the club is certainly far ahead of the old railroad-depot. The waiters...
...With us the elements of thought as well as of life have become differentiated. But each has thus become developed into a fulness of detail that was before impossible; and therefore, just so far as they can be recombined into a unity similar to the old, do we have a fulness and a grandeur of conception far surpassing that...
...would not suggest a course of professional reading, but the perusal of works which give polish and culture. To many the question must naturally arise, "What shall I read?" In answer, we can do no better than quote the words of an old writer on the same subject: "In brief, sir, study what you most affect." The remark is full of truth, and it seems only natural that whatever most interests us we shall study and read to the greatest effect...
...with all of us. Favorite books become old friends, and through their works we feel a sort of friendship and brotherhood with the authors themselves...