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...were this year, that the game be forfeited, and the ball ours with the right to hang it up, with the name of that team, and "forfeited" painted upon it. If this plan is adopted, it will tend to make other teams more careful in their appointments, and avoid any more trouble like that incurred this year...
BORN and brought up in luxury as I had been, it was a sad shock to my sensibilities when papa was forced, by the pressure of financial difficulties, to relinquish his business and emigrate to California. He went very quietly, in order to avoid the pain of separation from his old friends, for, as he often remarked, he was a sensitive man. Even his creditors were grieved at his sudden departure. One of them, a very rough, profane man, whom you would never have suspected of tender sensibilities, is reported to have said that he would just like...
...chorus, while singing, will execute a simple, but rhythmical dance movement, with more or less pantomime; but care will be taken to avoid any thing ridiculous...
Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress at the exercises around the Tree...
...constant changing from one course to another, are certainly injurious to the student himself, and are also a source of great annoyance at the office. As to the fact that it is impossible to obtain good marks under certain instructors, it would seem as if the proper way to avoid this difficulty would be by specifying the courses of these instructors as extras at the outset, since there need be no hesitation in so doing, if they, as the Advocate states, are confessedly unfair as regards marks. As we have before said, we do not see how the Faculty...