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...intend to become members of the new Harvard Rowing Club, to use the Weld boat house, will meet tonight in Upper Massachusetts at 7.15 p. m. to adopt a constitution, by laws and rules, and to elect officers...
...ballot with as little trouble as possible, certainly seem to promise very well." He points out that another step must still be taken-organization among different caucuses before the nominating convention. He closes with a warning that we should not be "in too much of a hurry to adopt any of the proposed legal schemes by legal enactment," for they are all untried and may be condemned on account of faulty detail, though the general plan is good...
...soonest learns her smile who reads incessantly and carefully, and at the same time brings to his reading a thoughtful mind and a habit of discrimination. Then, too, in addressing the jury, care should be given more to matter than manner. The most successful jury lawyers are those who adopt in talking to the jury not an oratorical manner and tone, but an easy, conversational tone. Earnestness, too, should be aimed...
Princeton has decided to follow the example of other colleges and adopt a blazer and cap of special design to be worn exclusively by the members of the different athletic teams...
...weather was considered too bad for the game, the game should have been forfeited and money telegraphed for or borrowed by the careless manager. But if a game was necessary, it should have been played in a straight-forward, manly way. That the captain of the nine should adopt the policy of delaying the game, of resorting to trickery, unknown to our college teams before, and only on the level of professionalism, is utterly disgraceful and dishonorable, if not cowardly. If the game was begun, it should have been played in earnest. Fair defeat is no disgrace, far from...