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...result is naturally a very bitter disappointment for us, as the nature of the game was totally unexpected. Still the play of our team was by no means weak, and a little stronger tackling with surer catching would have materially effected the score. Moffat, Lamar and Kimball did nearly everything for the home team, while Adams, Kendall and Cowling worked hard for Harvard. The play of Appleton and Bonsal was also very noticeable. The teams were as follows...
...late Boston paper calls attention to the fact that sixty-seven members of the West Point class entering last June were unable to swim. "Instruction in this indispensable art was given during the summer, and, as a result, all of the class, with two exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity...
...pins which decorate the waistcoats of our Yale friends. And now the cry of reform is raised by an undergraduate of that college. While we do not doubt that investigation will do good to almost anything, we fear that any investigation of such a subject as secret societies will result in nothing but angry defiance on the part of the students who naturally feet that their privileges are being violated. Undergraduates are not apt to accept with any degree of grace, dictation from their alumni, believing as they do that they themselves are reasonable beings and can institute reforms...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme I. will be due on Thursday, Nov. 22. Subjects : The Result of the State Election; A translation of Livy, I., 24-25; A translation of Herodotus, I., 86-87; A review of Anthony Trollope's Autobiography; Boston Streets on the evening of Election Day; Mrs. Norris (in Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"); The Story of the Princess Nausicaa...
...closely connected. In many of these, especially in the higher courses, a certain amount of original work and of independent investigation is undertaken by professors and students in fields comparatively unexplored. As yet there is no established means of communication between our colleges by which speedy information of the result of work of this kind can be conveyed from one to the other, or by which arrangements for co-operation and mutual aid in investigation can be made. If such means existed there is no doubt that in numerous higher courses, for example, in history, philosophy, or the sciences, which...