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...attempt is being made to unite under one head the different athletic organizations of the University of Pennsylvania...
...have occasionally heard some grumbling that the rule was unnecessarily strict. As a matter of fact the results in the case have more than warranted the increased stringency. Some years ago parents used to complain that their sons, in an attempt to contest when not physically able, were sometimes seriously hurt. The rule which was then passed for a remedy proved insufficient. For a year or so past, it has been found to work very unsatisfactorily. The regulation now in effect was the only reasonable and thorough solution of the difficulty...
...attempt to obtain the site of Delphi for excavations has been fruitless as the French claims have proved to be founded upon better grounds than was at first supposed, but the school has carried on a series of original investigations and has obtained a number of interesting and valuable discoveries at Platea...
...duty to attempt to communicate to those upon whom the blow of his death has fallen with even greater weight than upon us, his fellows, some idea of the deep sympathy which we have for them in their sudden and overwhelming trouble...
...Yonson," which is not, as many suppose, the attempt of an anglomaniac to pronounce "John Johnson," would never be used as a substitute for laughing gas,- but like a great many other things, it goes...