Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no doubt but that the crews, teams, and other organized bodies should have the first right to use the chest-weights in the gymnasium. That they should have the exclusive use of them during certain portions of every afternoon is a custom the justice of which may well be doubted. We are inclined to think that it is not quite fair for the unorganized mass of students, and wish to suggest a remedy. At the very time when there are most men in the gymnasium taking their regular exercise the weights can not be approached, as a usual...
...question of athletic sports in colleges. What practical results, if any, we may expect from this, conference it would not now be profitable to conjecture. There is in fact only one result that we can definitely hope for from such a meeting and that result certainly we have a right to expect. It is that the faculty will through the committee give some definite idea of what its policy in the matter of college sports at present is or is likely to become in the future. As to this question at present the college is in the profoundest doubt...
...colleges, hearing of its advantages, have forced their faculties to give attention to this matter. Better recreative facilities at their own colleges has been the result. Finally, the good habits and ideas learned by those who use it while here, spread abroad after graduation, influence many others in the right direction...
...announcement recently made by an instructor that he had ordered duplicate copies of the reference books most used by his section is a step in the right direction. Moreover, he offered to place his private copies of these works on the alcove shelves for use during the examination time, if the needs of the section require them. With such an amount of attention on the part of instructors, library work will be made much easier and the use of reference books will be developed to its utmost...
...some of my friends, whose fathers made their fortunes in Louisiana, have promised me they will give $300, 000 more to the university, but they will not do so if their donated property is to be taxed. Something ought to be done and done now to set this matter right...