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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EACH successive year takes away some of the members of the Nine. By the graduation of 74 we lose the services of Tyler, Hodges, and Bettens. Such vacancies are expected to be filled partly from the new Freshman Class, partly from the members of the other class Nines. At present there are four men practising for the vacant places, and there are at least three more who will shortly commence gymnasium work. Out of this number it is to be hoped that a first-class Nine will be selected next spring. Owing to the shortness of the fall season...
...mucker roams in freedom through our sacred yard, her maiden robs the freedom of the student's heart. The Port is of the nineteenth century, shoppy; we who feel - to use a vulgarism - the ancient and patrician oats of our two hundred and thirty-ninth year (Freshmen of the present year especially) will no longer bear the plebeian yoke...
...objection to the present hour of dining, it is urged that "it is conducive to neither health, comfort, nor convenience." The first clause of this statement - that the present dinner-hour is not conducive to health - we positively deny. It is, we believe, a fact, and supported by all writers on hygiene, that the healthiest time for the heartiest meal of the day is near noon, not later, at least, than three o'clock. It has been said, however, that this advantage of the present hour of dinner is modified by the necessity of recitation and study immediately preceding...
...second part of the statement - that the present hour for dinner is not conducive to convenience - is so much a matter of personal opinion that it cannot be argued...
...regard to exercise. Two consecutive hours a day for exercise are certainly to be desired, but if dinner were at six through the winter months alone, there would be but one hour for the purpose, and were dinner at five there would be none at all. The latter, then, presents no advantage; does the change to six o'clock present any? To answer this question fairly, it must be kept in mind that not the interests of the boating and bail-clubs alone are to be consulted, and that the recreation, for perhaps it is nothing more, of the still...