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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...toward partly paying for the prize. An entry-book will be opened at Bartlett's, which will close at 12 M., Monday. The contestants will be drawn in pairs, and the winners of the trials play on until one man remains unbeaten. The place of playing will be written in the entry-book. Umpires and scorer will be appointed later. Those who are interested in Lawn Tennis should not fear to take part in this tournament. Most men are now through their annuals, and this affair is intended to fill up the few dull days before Class...
...number of the Yale Lit. is by far the best of our exchanges this week, and is really excellent. The leader on "Some Books" is well written and contains much sound common-sense. "The Light-Keeper's Story" is an interesting and thrilling tale, and altogether a very creditable production. Want of space prevents us from noticing the other articles, but they are all good. The only criticism we have to make on the Lit. is the insertion of so many baseball scores and so much society news. Why not leave such things as these for the Courant and Record...
...Mother-Goose School." At the risk of being included among the disciples of "the Mother-Goose School," we confess to having been utterly puzzled by the metre of the poem in question. It is, as the author tells us, "suggested by Mrs. Browning's 'A Portrait,'" which is written in stanzas of three verses each, each line consisting of our trochees. As the stanzas in "A Counterfeit Presentment" are arranged in the same manner, and as those verses which we succeeded in scanning are also trochaic dimeters, we supposed, naturally enough, that the author had aimed at this throughout...
...books are examined and the mistakes marked without the instructor's knowing, in a single instance, whose book he examines. The names are written on a slip of paper, with the number of mistakes each has made. Then the man with fewest mistakes, say six, is given the highest mark, say 98%. This is almost exactly the relation the best man's mistakes and per cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose...
...editors of the Ariel announce that, in future, they intend to make it "emphatically a students' paper." The resolution is a wise one, for the Ariel, though always well written, would certainly be more exciting if it would devote less space to articles on "classical culture" and other kindred subjects...