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...marsh below Appleton Chapel, and the pond at the end of the walk on Harvard Street, just opposite Holyoke St. On every moist day, on each side of the walk leading from the Chapel to Memorial, two large pools of water are formed which gradually rise and overflow the path; then our generous authorities send a couple of stalwart Irishmen who dig a small trench across the path, drawing the small puddle into the larger, and making the walk in the meanwhile a regular quicksand. The end of the walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken...
...Bryn Mawr hereafter is to be its college for the higher education of women, situate in the midst of 32 acres of choice land, and connected with which are the cottages already built and others yet to be built for the pleasant accommodation of the faculty and any overflow of students. This Bryn Mawr College "was founded by the late Joseph W. Taylor, M. D., a prominent member of the Society of Friends, of Burlington, N. J. He bought the land and began the erection of the buildings in 1879. Dying in 1880, he left an endowment...
...university fall sports, should, I think, be kept up as the three regular winter meetings. I recommend, however, under no circumstances, the extra fourth winter meeting be held in the future, as it has been found impossible to make it anything more than a poor exhibition and a mere overflow meeting...
...team is eagerly seized upon by the students to get up games between classes, societies, club tables, etc. In the spring and fall there is scarcely a foot of available ground which is not taken up for some sort of athletic sport, and everything which tends to prevent the overflow to other grounds limits the pursuit of the sport...
...that the three regular meetings of the Athletic Association have been so successfully completed, while only the encore or overflow meeting of Monday evening remains to be held, it is fitting that the thanks of the college should be extended to the energetic managers of the association for their untiring efforts to secure success. This success of itself might indeed be considered by themselves a sufficient reward, but an expression of thanks from the college is a duty it owes to itself and to them. Thanks must also be given to all those who have contributed to this success...