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...Harvard man. This arctic weather, to be sure, is suggestive of anything but base-ball, yet it will be but a short time before the nine displays in the field the results of the steady and energetic work done in the gymnasium. The outlook for the crimson is very bright. Nothing ensures success like the consciousness of success already won, and the record of last year's nine cannot fail to stimulate to every effort the nine of the present year. With the men now trying for positions we have every reason to be satisfied. Enough...
...freshman class of Princeton possesses a very bright and promising young tennis player by the name of Mudge. As yet he is small and undeveloped, but with a little more practice he is looked upon by his class mates as a coming champion...
...students had taken in all great National movements. At its close, Rev. Thomas Van Ness made some humorous remarks on the various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages of an old and heavily-endowed school. This brought out a bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with a college education could wield great influence in the new West and establish here...
...without reason. To be clever has been "the thing" in these parts for many years, and every other quality has been sacrificed in order to obtain, if not the reality, at least an appearance of cleverness. What is it to be clever? It is to be something more than bright, but less than intellectual. The clever man is the child of leisure, and, therefore, lazy by birth - an intellectual vagrant...
...Monthly" is to the more serious. Whatever it prints, however, may well be most excellent in literary from and finish. The "Lampoon-Advocate," or whatever the paper is called, if not professedly funny in everything, may contain, besides sketches such as now come out in the "Lampoon," good, bright, short stories, not too serious, and often humorous. It will publish the best light verse which the college can produce. Further-more it will be illustrated. Although it probably will not have a certain number of pictures, with a joke attached to each, it will give the best artistic work...