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...American game, and, in spite of the patriotic efforts of Minister Schenck, is not yet received with favor in England. "The game in which this misuse of terms is most rampant, and to which I especially desire to direct attention," the writer concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server...
...they have spared us fortunately, and only college poets were hauled over the coal. It is noticeable that those whose verses are systematically worst are most noisy in carping and cavilling at the envied superiority of their betters and in disclaiming all partisanship in favor of what they mockingly call the French jingles. There is a college in New York which does not hear "the babbling of the brooks and twittering of the birds" in the rondeaux, ballades, triolets, and emphatically expresses its disapproval of such baubles of rhyme as follows...
...call attention to the communication in another column about the umbrella racks at Memorial. We think the suggestion a good one, and hope that the persons who have the authority will consider it worthy of adoption...
Members of the Lacrosse Team will please call at Weld 2 as soon as possible to engage hours for practising in the cage at the gymnasium...
...would call the particular attention of all men interested in economic subjects, to the announcement of the Finance Club regarding the Cobden Club medal. Last year the medal was awarded to Mr. Homer Gage, '82, there being only one other competitor. The medal itself is a very elegant affair, and well worth competing for, but the principal incentive should be the honor which falls to the successful essayist. The club includes among its members some of the most eminent statesmen and economists in the world, and election to the society is generally one of the rewards of success in this...