Word: plain
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...communications on the sparring petition appear on another page. To all who contemplate signing this petition we would desire to state a few plain facts. The end of a university training is mental and not physical. The support of exercise should be merely as a means by which this end may be accomplished. Does our university encourage athletic exercise in a measure adequate to this end? The Hemenway gymnasium - the most complete college gymnasium in the country, and the employment of two officials whose duty it is to superintend and develop athletic interests, answer this question emphatically in the affirmative...
There never has been a time, in the history of our country at least, when the evidences of a great social revolution were so plain as at present. The laboring classes are arousing themselves from the lethargy in which they have rested for the last century. Cooperation, distributive and industrial, is the form which this movement is taking. The dangers of misdirected energy on the part of the agitators are grave, and, as Mr. Brooks said in one of his lectures last term, the only way of averting them is by the education of the masses on this question...
...teams of the figures that designated the different years. Those who are guilty of this act of vandalism may excuse themselves on the plea that the articles taken are comparatively valueless and will serve the purpose of ornaments in students rooms, more perfectly than in the gymnasium. In plain Anglo Saxon, however, a student who is guilty of this practice, is either a kleptomaniac, and deserves a term in the insane asylum, or a thief, and should be made to feel the hand of the common law. Desirous as we are for subjects for editorials, we can but blush...
...Mathematical Seminar will be held to-morrow. Mr. Osgood will lecture on some singularities of plain curves; the 15 puzzle will also be described...
Lost. - A medium sized black silk umbrella, plain, dark wood handle, with two black cord tassels suspended to the handle, has been lost in the Auditor's room at Memorial. It was taken by mistake, Sunday, Nov. 22. The one having it will confer a favor by leaving it with the Auditor...