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...season ticket, the members of the University can see the games for this low rate. This arrangement does away with the objection that the games are not within the financial reach of many. As for those who know nothing of hockey, and who have been led by apathy to prolong their ignorance of the most vigorous and exciting of winter sports, if they will but attend a "trial" game, they are rather apt to want to come again and often...
...season. The Harvard Athletic Association, however, has heard nothing of the proposed conference. A tentative proposal by the Yale authorities to play the annual game with the University on Thankagiving was communicated unofficially to the Athletic Associations, but was not favorably considered as it was not desired to prolong the season unduly...
...some old manuscripts. An itinerant actor named Striese undertakes to present the play, and rehearsals are well under way, when Mrs. Gollwitz and Paula unexpectedly return to town. Mrs. Gollwitz is very shrewish and strongly opposed to the stage; hence the professor writes her a note, urging her to prolong her visit, as the maid, Rosa, has left to attend a funeral. But Mrs. Gollwitz arrives just in time to find Rosa reading the note, and detects the professor's deceit...
Another improvement over the Holmes Field track is the two hundred and twenty yard straightaway. This has been made on the south side by prolonging the west end two hundred and eight-five feet and the east end seventy-six. It has also been proposed to prolong the west end of the north side sufficiently to enable the quarter-mile to be run with only one turn by starting at the beginning of the two hundred and twenty yard straightaway. But this change will probably not be made, since it would place the finish of the race at an extreme...
...supremacy. That the same candidate can not, if rejected for one office, stand for the next, is an argument that will have force with the candidate himself rather than with the club as a whole. That the postponement of the election for a few days will harmfully prolong the excitement can hardly have been seriously meant. That, after all, it is better that only those interested should vote, is a proposition the fallacy in which is evident when we consider the ambiguity of the word "interested...