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...ultimate success, which are increased by the manifest improvement in the nine. Yet, as the varying fortunes of the different college nines last year demonstrated, nothing definite or even extremely probable can be predicted. The best we can do is to do just what we have done hitherto, viz: To give the players and the management our confidence, and show an active interest in their work by presence at the games...
Another kind of work of an altogether different character occupies the spare time of many students, viz., literary labor. The least profitable and the least pursued is newspaper work. The college papers are seldom run on a money-making basis. The work which brings the most money into the student's pocket is the writing of special articles and special correspondence for the leading papers of Boston, New York, Chicago, in fact of nearly every city in the country. The New York Herald, World, and Tribune, the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Tribune, the Philadelphia News...
...glad to see so much enterprise in the college papers. The Yale News has now a new department, viz, the weather. The editors generally leave the beaten tracks of ordinary newspaper expression and transpose the "probabilities" into their own more elegant and flowery language...
...crews have commenced river practice, but your correspondent respectfully declines to criticise them, for more reasons than one. We are attempting a great deal of work this year in our aquatic campaign. It is our intention to support three crews, viz. : a 'Varsity eight to row Harvard at New London ; a 'Varsity four, for the Harlem and Passaic regattas, and possibly for the Childs Cup contest on the Schuylkill ; and last, but by no means least, a freshman eight to row the Harvard freshmen on the Harlem...
...would be surprised, not to say disappointed, when he arrived here, and, after mistaking the janitor of Divinity Hall for a divinity student, became acquainted with the gentlemen living opposite the Peabody Museum. I presumed that both he and his father had read the constitution of the school, viz.: "That every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiassed investigation of Christian truths, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians shall be required, either of the instructors or students," and that Benjamin Emilius would be surprised at the breadth and liberality of interpretation which...