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...said that there are two methods, persuasion and legislation, which can rid us of the evil of intemperance. The evil has three elements, viz., the brewery and distillery, the saloon, and the drinker; and if the first one can be overthrown, the overthrow of the two others will follow. Now what is the best means of overthrowing the distillery and the brewery? Surely not persuasion. Should then high or low license, local option or a constitutional amendment be the means? The latter is the best means owing to its superior principle...
...fourth annual meeting of the New England clubs was held on Friday at the United States Hotel. Nineteen clubs were represented. At the business meeting, Mr. Mansfield (Longwood), moved and Mr. Balch (Harvard), seconded, the following, viz: "The side which goes in second shall follow their innings, if they have scored forty per cent. less runs than their opponents should be substituted in the case of one day matches for Law I, which says, "The side that goes in second shall follow on if they are sixty runs behind." After a good deal of debate, the motion was carried...
...England to join, a new constitution was adopted, modelled on the intercollegiate constitution, and a new list of events were made up. The annual convention of the association was held last Saturday in the B. Y. M. C. U. building, and nine schools sent delegates to it, viz.: Roxbury Latin, Hopkinson's, Boston Latin, Noble's, Hale's. Newton High, Exeter Academy, Worcester Academy and English High...
...committee of four graduates, only one of whom had rowed in recent years, was appointed to take charge of boating matters. Naturally enough they strove to inculcate in the crew those principles with which they were most familiar, viz., those which pertained to the English or Bancroft system of rowing. Despite the fact that the method introduced by Storrow had brought about the over-whelming defeat of the Yale giants in '85, despite the manifest adoption by Yale of the essential feature of this method, and her consequent successes and despite the marked improvement in the speed of the boat...
...monitors will mark as follows at Chapel, viz: Tarday after the beginning of the Doxology; absent after its close-Faculty order.- Amherst Student...