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...take the opportunity on Sunday to clear up back work, and yet they would not feel justified in using the whole of a day intended for rest, for such a purpose. On one day a week, at the least, it is good for a man to take a certain amount of rest and recreation out in the open air. Now the present hours at the Library Reading Room put a premium on spending Sunday afternoons indoors or else on letting go entirely work that could be done very comfortably in the evening. As everyone knows, the Reading Room opens...
...size, and then to secure a fit by stretching out their prospective lodgers. If the lodgers were all to be tall men, this idea might be very good, but it is scant wisdom where accomodations are professedly designed for all, and when at least half of the public are certain to be woefully "short...
...February number of the Illustrated Magazine contains certain articles which, if properly treated, might have been made very interesting. Such for instance is one by G. P. Ferrell, "Over to Herbie's." From title to finish, however, the style is colloquial and the tone is cheap. The subject is certainly one of interest, but it is so treated that it leaves an impression of disappointment...
That Yale will have no professional coach this year is almost certain, though L. M. Johnson '02, who has played on professional teams, will assist Captain Robertson in developing the team. Besides, Johnson, Keator, Carter, Beall, Redington, Quinby and Camp--all graduates--will coach the team during the coming season. Yale intends to give especial attention to batting, realizing that this department must be strengthened to insure success...
...violent statements. In the first place, the "Post" was not the only one of the Boston papers deserving of criticism. In the second place, I should substitute "exaggerated" for "'rank' falsehood" and I have been convinced that the man who wrote the article was misinformed as to certain facts in the case and erred unintentionally...