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...final heat was started in a most careless manner. Bonine was several yards ahead of the line when the word was given. Although the attention of the starter was called to the fact, he refused to set them back, but fired his pistol, sending the men off. Baker was behind at the time and so failed to catch either of the first two men, though running much faster than either. Bonine won in 10 3-5s. and Derickson was second...
...game played yesterday afternoon by eighty-eight against the Brown freshmen was, in a way, interesting, inasmuch as it showed pretty plainly what must be done in order to win the game at New Haven next Saturday After watching the careless playing of our nine during the tedious two hours that the game lasted, we are led, in all kindness and good will, to offer a few suggestions. Now we offer our advice simply because we think that the team is capable of improving its play by following it, and because we cannot believe that success is to be attained...
...these quotations that I have made from his letters, I think Boswell's real self can be seen. He was fickle and impetuous: he was careless of others: he was vain beyond measure. But he was so open in his likes and dislikes, so frank in thought, and at times so generous, that we must see a certain amount of good in him after all. Boswell is a queer compound of openness, foolishness, and immorality. His whole life may be summed up in the single phrase he used when telling why he was a sceptic: "My scepticism," he wrote...
...question, What shall we do with our parents, is of the greatest importance to those of us who are about to graduate. A young man rarely realizes its full suggestiveness until after his return home from college. In the careless days of early boyhood, the momentous issues of life, of which this is one, are not anticipated, or if so, only with a soothing sense of great distance...
...idea is to collect into one place full information upon each of the important topics of present history. The trouble with our careless, intermittent newspaper reading, is that we get but an imperfect, hazy, often incorrect knowledge of passing events. The purpose of the proposed plan is expressed in the phrase-to present a compendious summary of contemporaneous history...