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...last paragraph of the report deserves especial attention. Complaint is made that the old custom of each man at the training tables paying what his board had previously cost him, has for some unknown reason been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed...
...incident of the last siege of Paris. The story is interesting even exciting, but the suspense in which one is held while reading is hardly justified by the unsatisfactory ending. The movement is rapid and effective, and, with the exception of a little padding in the second paragraph, is well written and put together. "A Story out of History" is unlike anything that has appeared in the Advocate for some time. It savors somewhat of the fairy tales of Madame D'Aubigne, but it runs, notwithstanding, very smoothly, and one cannot help but be touched by the sketch...
...newspaper accounts of the Yale-Harvard game of last Saturday the following entirely false paragraph appeared...
...some years ago, but which now has lost all hold upon sensible man. What is aimed at in the elocution sections is temperate, exact and adequate presentation, and these are things which it behooves every man to know. How often is the reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct, for the main reason that men have not had their...
...publish elsewhere a short account of President Eliot's report to the Board of Overseers. We concur most heartily in what is said about voluntary chapel and the other questions concerning the college. But in the final paragraph relating to athletic sports, we find sentiments expressed with which we cannot entirely agree. Admitting that "foot-ball, base-ball, and rowing are liable to abuses." yet we cannot see that these abuses are altogether of the kind President Eliot mentions. Extravagant expenditure and betting are, to be sure, abuses which exist and flourish abnormally. Our position in regard to them...