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...which they could keep to tent. The other rooms could be used for above purposes. The billiard room would be a long felt want supplied, and also the reading-room. If any space is left, a club room would be appropriate. This building, being so near Memorial Hall, will answer for these purposes better than any other...
...manager of the nine have sent around postals to all living outside of the college grounds requesting such to fill in the amount they are willing to subscribe for the nine, and return by mail the answers. All who do not feel able to subscribe are requested to so notify the manager by means of these postals. We hope none will fail to return some answer to these requests. It certainly is nothing more than an act of common courtesy so to do, and it will relieve the manager of much extra trouble...
Among the difficulties met by the American, the following may be mentioned. The language is, of course, the main one, but six months of honest hard work will overcome this in nearly every case, and in some special branches enough can be gained in four to answer all practical purposes. The script is peculiar and must be learned, for nearly all notices on the bulletins are written in it. The choice of lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this...
Another evil in athletics, which is the result of competition, is said to be unequal development produced by training for specialities. In answer to this we need only look at the prominent athletes in the different branches. They are almost without exception healthy, and well developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialities...
...favored with an early answer to the invitation, and we request that if a delegate from the college is to honor us with his presence, his name and title may as soon as possible be communicated. In name and by authority of the University of Edinburgh...