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...past few days of cold weather bring to mind the need of a place for skating during the winter. The ponds about Cambridge are free from snow during only a small part of the cold season, and even then they are so inaccessible that comparatively few men can afford to spend the time necessary to go to them. If on the other hand, a place were provided near by, and the lce kept in condition for skating the greater part of the winter, it is probable that as many students would engage in this form of exercise as take part...
...members of the University and they will be made so short and easy that men may safely take part in them whether they are in training or not. The runs will probably be held Tuesday and Friday of every week from this time throughout the fall. The runs afford an excellent opportunity for men to put and keep themselves in good condition, and the runs in themselves have in past years proved a source of enjoyable sport...
...afford the students an idea of the business and mechanical departments of a newspaper, a printing office will be established in the college and the students will be given full charge. Lectures will be given frequently by distinguished journalists and written exercises and practical newspaper work will form an important part of the course...
...generally equally interesting to the student body. Important questions which the college papers as a rule treat crudely and unsatisfactorily, are discussed in the Magazine by men of maturer intelligence, whose opinions carry weight with them; and it may fairly be said that the pages of the Magazine afford the best general history of the University, past and present...
...elections. The minute a class begins to have "bosses" and to split itself up into antagonistic factions, each running its own candidates, the fairness and honorableness which ought to exist at college if anywhere ceases to exist and the element of "machine polititics" sweeps everything before it. We cannot afford to have a Tammany ring in these elections. The matter of society preferences has no right in a question of such importance to the whole class. The best men should be elected no matter what their society connections...