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THEY have a piano in the gymnasium at Williams, and they speak of it as one of the gymnasium's properties. Perhaps the Williams students practise calisthenics to the sound of soft music. The Athenaeum also tells us that college students are typical grumblers. For an aphorism this is good...
UNDER the auspices of the Boat Club, an athletic meeting will be given during the evenings of April 4 and 5. The programme, which we give below in full, is divided into two parts; one for college men only, the other for all amateurs. Gold and silver medals will be given for all the events, except the tug-of war, for which sets of colors will probably be the prizes. The college events are: I-mile walk, 1/2-mile run, 75-yards dash, I-mile run, 1/4-mile run, 220-yards hurdle, and tug-of-war (teams of four men each...
...will be the amateur eleven of the Lascelles Club, and as this club has practised base-ball in England lately, it will play with some of our amateur as well as professional nines, including the college teams of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The third team will be a professional one under Daft, and will come over late in September. The play of the Philadelphians against the Australians last October has aroused quite a desire to visit America among the English clubs...
...passed the old Gymnasium, I noticed that it was an entire ruin. The conductor informed me that an instructor in German had kept his marking-machine there, and one day, when he was trying to get minus fifty per cent out of it, the thing exploded. The instructor had twenty-four funerals. They buried as much of him as they could find the first time, and whenever another piece was discovered, they had an extra funeral...
...then ascended to the gallery. Upon the wall on one side was a mirror of fifty or more feet in length. My question was forestalled by the information that "the Freshmen practise the 'Harvard Swing' along there." We passed on. Through a half-open door I caught a glimpse of a few men putting up dumb-bells. I drew nearer, but my companion grasped me by the arm, and said in a hoarse whisper, "Don't go in there. It is dangerous. They are Law Students. Don't you see their beards?" I did n't, but nevertheless hurried away...