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Another important change is the holding of a preliminary meeting for wrestling. In former years the long trial bouts have been exceedingly tedious, and have often exhausted the contestants before the final bouts. This year only the final bouts will be wrestled at the regular meeting, and the result will be a more interesting meeting and better wrestling...
...association if a sufficient supply of all perishable things on the list is kept on hand, or if only a little is provided as is now done those alone who order first can be served and the annoying answer "all out" is the only result of the long and tedious waiting of those who order afterwards, Now almost every man in the hall would be willing to give up the order list, or at least to have the number of articles on it lessened if the general fare could be greatly improved by doing so, as in most cases extras...
...first treating of political economy proper; the second applying the principles of the science to the various questions of the day. We have long felt that some such book was needed. Neither Faucet nor Walker possesses the elements of a good textbook. Except to the most devoted, Mill becomes tedious through his many details, besides being antiquated in several points. For the students of Political Economy I, therefore, Prof. Laughlin's books will be a great aid. They will find there, stated in clear and forcible language, Mr. Mill's conclusions and the reasoning upon which they are based, together...
...brilliancy. The ladies of to-day have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable, and compressed eighty thousand lines into a sentence; indeed, with the exception of his "Catullus" of last year, we do not remember any critical article of his that is better He tells us among other things that by an intricate method of skipping, the "Bharata" may be read in ninety...
...game on the whole, was tedious, and the only redeeming features were the occasional streaks of heavy batting, and the brilliant work of Wiestling. The regular umpire was relieved by the change umpire at the end of the fifth inning, and it is safe to say that both gave general and complete satisfaction. The score...