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...difference between the two scores may not have the effect of discouraging men from trying their best; for, after all, it is only by trying hard that anything is to be accomplished. And now that the principles of training are so radically changed from what they were five years ago, requiring less dieting, etc., it is to be hoped that when the spring comes, men will be willing to make a temporary sacrifice of a few bodily comforts in order to put our Athletic Association on a footing equal to that of any college in the country...
Going down DeWolf Street, where it makes a turn to the left, the broad crimson banner of the boat-club caught my sight. I thought of the time, about a year ago, when, at its first unfurling, one of Harvard's dashing old oars predicted that it would be the harbinger of victory; and, in spite of my apathy, I could not help feeling proud that the prediction had come to pass. The bright folds were now stretched by the wind, and showed the dear old word to which, when we are out of Cambridge, we all so fondly cling...
...SNELLING, {Committee of Invitation.}W. T. Cox,Not long ago $ 100 or $ 150 was paid as a bonus for rooms. To-day $ 75 is given way to any one who will take a room off a man's hands...
...ever heard of. What I do want to suggest is that the College can, at a small expense, relieve those who suffer from draughts and those who suffer from close air, by introducing an invention which was used in some of the schools of Boston a few years ago (and is still, for all that the writer knows to the contrary), consisting of a board which fits into the window-frame, and is furnished with a large pipe covered with a wire netting through which the draught of air is regulated by a damper. If a supply of these were...
...long ago their lore I learned...