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...Freshman to try their mettle against Yale. This fall we had confidently expected success in lawn tennis. At one time we had hoped for our foot ball team, but Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Princeton and Yale were too much for us. Let us not, however, feel discouraged over the past. At lacrosse we see no reason why with hard work our team cannot retrieve their defeats of last spring. Boating is our own especial province, and it is only once within the last three years that Yale has been fortunate enough to shoot her now beyond ours. But it is to base...
...college buildings do not share this transformation. We have a little ivy here and there. And no one who has observed what a change this little makes in the dingy, dusty, dreariness of the older buildings, can help regretting that the college has not taken the trouble during past years to set out more vines. The autumn coloring of these ivy leaves during the past few weeks has been most beautiful. And when we think how rapidly the vine grows and how easily all our older buildings might by this time have been completely clad in this garb, we feel...
...Cambridge have been changed from the Woman's Education Society in Boston to the Annex, the examinations in other cities being carried on as heretofore. Greek is the favorite study of the young ladies; and mathematics, the other languages, botany and philosophy were also well attended during the past year. The exercise of the students is obtained, not only in the usual outdoor methods pursued by ladies, but also in Dr. Sargent's private gymnasium, which has been open to them. The needs of the Annex are necessarily many, but among the most noticeable is that of larger class rooms...
...call up these records of the patriotism of '86 from the mouldy archives of the past to set them before the eyes of '88, for it may snow again, and someone must shovel the field if it does, hence the point to be made is that "what freshman has done once, freshman can do again...
There will be a farce presented at the Everett Athenaeum rooms, Friday, November 21. Past members are cordially invited...