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...successive freshman classes. Since 1889 this decrease has been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone down to eighteen years and ten months. The fall is very slow but it is probably sure. With it may be expected a constant improvement in the mental ability of the student; for the lessening age will be significant not of haste in the preparatory, but of intelligent thoroughness in the elementary, school. In some future time the freshman seventeen years old will be better educated...
...made up in January. He is a promising dark horse for stroke this year. Bailey, up to three weeks ago, was considered the most promising candidate for 'varsity stroke. At that time he was taken ill with varioloid, and since his return has been very weak. His illness seems sure to cost him the position of stroke, and it may lose him a seat in the boat. Dater is the latest aspirant for stroke honors. Miller was stroke for a fortnight, but last Monday was pulled out of the boat by Percy Bolton and Josh Hartwell...
...then, in the short time that remains before final action is taken and the last hope is gone, have some strong, sincere, but always courteous, expressions of opinion from undergraduates. These will bring forth, I am sure, an equally vigorous endorsement from graduates, possibly in the form of an informal appeal to the Corporation and Overseers, who, while it may not lie within their province to over-rule directly any action that has been taken, may have sufficient influence to secure what the Athletic Committee has asked - a chance to put a game on the field next fall that will...
...baseball, the attempt is being made to get two games this spring with the Princeton freshmen. The attempt, we hope, will meet with success. The freshman nine has always been a most valuable means of developing material for the University team, and the latter would be sure to suffer if the ball players in Ninety-eight were discouraged at the beginning of their career. This point of view, however, makes too little of the disappointment to the freshmen themselves. The records made against Yale are always an important feature in the athletic history of a class, and it is hard...
This evening's lecture by Professor Shaler needs no recommendation: it is sure to be appreciated. The privilege of listening to Professor Shaler in the discussion of any subject in geology is an enviable one, for his reputation as a geologist is national. The Natural History Society is to be highly congratulated on securing him to introduce its course of lectures. Nothing could contribute more to their deserved success...