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...food which is to go into his mouth, than to exercise equal care in the selection of those who are to choose the men who are to go into his class crew. At any rate, the fact remains that the election of a Memorial Hall director will result in a vote reaching well into triple figures...
...very clear that the moon and the college are not the best of friends. As is known to us all, the two have undertaken to light the yard ever since Harvard was first established. The result of this double contract is that at times, during certain nights of each month, the yard is not lighted. Whose fault is it? The moon is controlled by certain inevitable laws; for example, it has certain nights for setting early, and certain nights also for rising late; and again it is quite unable to shine through heavy clouds. This leads to the conclusion that...
...Exeter, Phillips Andover, St. Pauls, St. Marks, and Adams Academies and the Boston Latin School. To those interested in base-ball in the colleges, no move could be more welcome than this; for it would mean a redoubled interest in base-ball for the preparatory schools, which would necessarily result in an excellence hitherto unknown. A systematic schedule of games, and a friendly rivalry for the base-ball championship of the inter-scholastic league, would of necessity prove beneficial to the preparatory schools as well as to the colleges which they supply...
...near approach of the freshman athletic meeting induces us to call the attention of eighty-nine to the importance of furnishing a full field of entries for all the events on the programme. It has become the custom of the college to watch closely the result of these freshman field sports. Every winner is carefully noticed, not so much from any great interest in his success in the particular event he happens to be contesting, but because his performance is taken as a measure by which to judge of the future strength or weakness of our Mott Haven...
...inaugurated, which, if successful, will give the society a somewhat different scope. It is now designed to have most of the work at its meetings done by the members, to give each one an opportunity to look up some subject of present interest and have him give the result of his investigations to his fellow members. The meetings will not be exactly historical seminars, but they will have the same improving influence. The society in this way will supply that deficiency felt in the historical department, and indeed in every department conducted on the lecture system, viz., the absence...