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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Nation in its last issue publishes an article on athletics, fair and harmless in its tone, but, while not incorrect in certain ideas, it takes, it seems to us, a mistaken view of some points, albeit the writer, from impartiality and greater experience, may be in a good position to judge...
...Advocate will appear today. There is not a bad contribution in the paper; there are four mediocre ones and one good one. The mediocre ones are entitled "Judge Relf," "John Blake, Monitor," "The Gentlemen," and "By Reason of a Grimace." "Judge Relf" is disappointing in that that the writer starts out well and then fails to make the best of his materials. The end seems careless and hurried. The story however is good in the beginning, the descriptions are by no means bad and the thing is getting interesting when all at once it weakens and the point...
...communication in another column is one of several that we have received in regard to the special trains to Springfield, and we feel sure that the writer expresses the sentiment of the whole college. Since every ticket to the Yale game secures the holder a particular seat it seems hardly necessary that he should reach the grounds earlier than half an hour before the game. The special trains run by the Boston and Albany R. R. leave Boston at 6.50, 8.00, and 8.35. Each ticket holder, therefore, having a reserved seat will take the last special and the result will...
...Advocate in its last number has touched upon a timely subject in connection with the probable disposition of the Fogg bequest, which was given with a view of providing the University with a suitable Museum of Fine Arts. We are thoroughly in sympathy with the writer of the article. However admirable is the spirit which prompted the head of the Fine Arts Department to recommend a postponement of the erection of the proposed building, we cannot overlook certain reasons which seem to us to outweigh his objections. To wait fifteen or twenty years until the original sum has increased...
Corbin '92, has an interesting article in the October number of the OUTING, in which the Mile Walk as an event in intercollegiate games is protested against, and as a substitute the writer suggests the three mile run. It may be of interest to note the line of argument used...