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GENTLEMEN:- There seems to be no knowledge on the part of the students of the University of the disposition that is being made of Jarvis Field. Thirteen tennis courts are to be built at once on Jarvis Field, in such a manner as to spoil the field for other sports. Now while every chance should be given to a sport that is as popular as tennis, is it wise to cripple other branches of athletics for the convenience of the tennis association? There seems to be something radically wrong in any scheme that deprives us unnecessarily...
...their motives and their actions; if he is a master of himself and of circumstances; if his mind leaps quickly and surely to conclusions, he is fitted for business. If a man does not get this adaptability from the college he alone is at fault. The man who is spoiled by his college course would probably never have succeeded any better in business. True, the college man is four years behind the non-college man. But his adaptability and his knowledge ought to be of more service, in the long run, than four years of narrow training in the early...
...massing is apparent. So in sketching as in astronomy there is always a personal equation. The object of a sketch is, all painters agree, the presentation of truth, to make a picture exactly like the real. Embellishments from the painter's imagination not only are never needed but always spoil a painting. Nature is itself beautiful enough...
...Reginald C. Robbins,- "One of our Criminals." The author tells the story of a switchman whom drink brings to misfortune, and misfortune to the crime of manslaughter through a mistake in switching. As a whole, the story is very well written; but it has some minor faults which spoil its full effectiveness, though they do not by any means destroy the interest of the tale. It is not well to attach any great importance to a presumably careless slip, but it is amusing to hear of a dying wife "gazing forth contentedly" at her husband "as a dog looks...
...playing space with a surging mass of class partisans. Obviously this sort of conduct, though it may be nothing but heedlessness, interferes with a just and fair settlement of class supremacy in football. If the spectators crowd upon the field they are sure, before the game is over, to spoil the play. At the class baseball games, where certainly the enthusiasm is just as great, classmen are generally content to stay outside the lines; the feeling should be the same during the football series. If arrangements have not already been made to keep the crowd back, the managers would...