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Dechanel's "Natural Philosophy, Part IV.," Sound and Light...
...play a game on Jarvis Field with the winning nine of the annual Andover-Exeter game. It is not yet surely known whether or not Andover and Exeter will enter into the scheme, but there is every reason to suppose that they will readily consent to form a part of the association. The Andover and Exeter men in college are enthusiastic over the plan, for it cannot but prove of great benefit both to Andover and to Exeter. The incentive given to both schools to put forth every effort in order to win the annual game, and thus...
...promptness in coming to recitations, and so relieves the instructors from the annoyance of men dropping in some time after the lecture or recitation has begun. But we wish to voice the great number of complaints that we have heard recently about the lack of co-operation on the part of many of the instructors in regard to this rule. Some keep men to long after the hour that it is impossible for them to get to their next recitation on time, especially, if their next recitation room is across the college yard. This happens frequently in the rooms...
...short time ago the Bicycle Club adopted a resolution to hold a spring race meeting and invite some other college clubs, notably Technology and Yale, to take part. The idea is a good one and will meet with the approval of all interested in intercollegiate athletics. The attempt to arrange a road race with Yale proved unsuccessful, but we see no reason why the plan now proposed should not be heartily entered into. Intercollegiate bicycling has heretofore been confined to the two-mile race at Mott Haven, and so has held a comparatively unimportant place. Bicycling as a sport deserves...
...Williams was the preacher of the afternoon. He read a part of the seventeenth chapter of John, and selected the verse, "Howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting," as the text of his remarks. He said that God demands the spirit of prayer and fasting in every man who desires true success in any work. There are some men of brilliant genius to whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit...