Word: rest
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...only a few are able to conquer their self-consciousness and sally forth arrayed in their academic costumes, the reason for the custom will disappear. The only way to carry out the tradition properly is for every man to consider it an honor to be thus distinguished from the rest of the College. If this is done, the class cannot help being somewhat more unified in the last few weeks of its College career...
...University baseball team will play Bates this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field in the first home game of the season. Either Hicks or Davis will pitch. The rest of the team will be the same as in the Georgetown game, with Marshall at shortstop in place of Simons, who has not yet sufficiently recovered from his illness. Crocker will probably start at second base, although MacLaughlin may be allowed to play for a while...
Yesterday afternoon the University crew resumed work again for the first time since the Columbia race. During the recess the crew was allowed to break training and to take a week's rest from rowing, although the first two Freshman crews rowed during the first part of the recess and the second University crew during the latter part. All of the men returned except Lunt, who is unable to come back until Thursday. Yesterday S. W. Fish 1L. took Lunt's place at No. 2, and will continue to row there until his return. The work was light, the crew...
...Quinn. All winter we have been hearing most discouraging reports about the quantity and quality of the available material and about the ineligibility of various prominent members of the squad on account of probation. Now that the April hour examinations have settled the question of eligibility for the rest of the year, and settled it favorably for many of the doubtful men, the members of the University will be able to see what their team is going to amount to. The interest in track work has been increasing in the last few years to a great extent, and although there...
...finally those who desire it. The majority of people are of the first class; they accept death as inevitable and seldom or never think about a future life, not even on their death-beds. There are some people who have simply had enough of life and desire only to rest in oblivion, and others who desire extinction because they have found this life unjust and cruel, and fear that the future one is no better. Again there are those who do not wish to die, and their desire for immortality is merely the expression of this wish...