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...tournament took place last fall and developed some excellent players, - who would be more than a match for many of the other sex. Coasting and skating are the prominent out-door sports in winter, and there are special opportunities for both. This interest and participation in athletics, which is seen at all large schools for women, is rightly regarded as one of the most promising signs of the times; and there are many who predict that the day will come when the active woman of sense and strength will entirely supersede the languid doll of sentiment and fancy...
...logarithms, has been brought to a position where its real worth as part of a complete education is beginning to be appreciated. Abstruse mathematics are no more necessary to a thorough grounding in physics than they are to a knowledge of history. That this is indeed true can be seen from the work in what is comparatively a new departure in our Physics courses - namely the elementary course in Laboratory work, Physics C. It is open to freshmen, so that those who have a taste for the study may begin real work at once, while others, who have no special...
...leading by about a length. At about two hundred yards from the finish the 'varsity spurted, and passing both its competitors crossed the line half a length ahead of '86, and three quarters of a length ahead of '88. On the whole, the race was one of the prettiest seen on the course for some years, fully repaying the sixty or seventy students who had come into town to see the finish...
...business it was to look after them, have been somewhat irregular. It is to be hoped that filling this chair will deepen the religious feeling among the students at large, by giving more consistency and coherence to our services. Then too a man like Dr. Peabody, as has been seen, could, in his position, exercise a very strong and beneficial influence over the students. So we are glad to learn of this first step of our Overseers; and trust that the next thing will be the granting of our petition...
...Richards and Aldridge; 120 yards hurdle, Bostwick and Safford; pole vault, Stephens; hammer and shot, Dresser; two mile bicycle, Renton, H. Y. Smith, and Gage. The tug-of-war team is not yet chosen, but J. Wheatly will be captain. From the above list of names it will be seen that Columbia has excellent chances in the sprints, (dashes,) while Ware in the walk Renton in the bicycle, and Safford in the hurdle, are confident of winning. The college games take place May 22, and on May 15 the freshman and sophomore classes have their games, which very possibly...