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...ball-crew." The party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism, for the author states in his preface that without certain bits of slang the representation would have lacked an essential feature. The illustrations, especially those giving views of well-known places, are good; among the others we notice several by Dore, which have appeared in other works, we believe, and give additional value to this book...
...back of Holmes, and the ground has already been marked out. In a short time a first eleven will be chosen, and matches will be arranged with the Cricket Clubs of Boston and New York. We would strongly urge on the Cricket Club the constant practice which the members certainly need before they can meet older organizations. The club must remember that it represents the College, and that, should they suffer any disgraceful defeat, it would to a certain extent affect the reputation for athletic excellence which the College possesses. With this word of caution, we wish the Cricket Club...
...tedious. The other criticism is on the announcing of the heights as the bar is moved, as was done in the running jump. It is not fair to the jumpers, and it is not needed by the spectators. If a man is accustomed in practice to reach only a certain height, and he is told when jumping in public that he has reached that height, he is certain to be unnerved by it rather than aided. At the Union's recent meeting they refused to tell contestants what the height was, even when they wished to know...
...their griefs and calamities and throw them down in one heap. Holmes Field was chosen for the purpose. I took my stand in the centre, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole College marching, one after another, and laying down their several loads. There was a certain lady, of thin, airy shape, who seemed to have the management of the solemnity. She held a book in her hand, and I guessed her name from the warning that was painted on her forehead...
...that it should be tutors, assistant-professors, and professors, who are better able to bear the loss. They have a salary of which they are sure, and though possibly not large, it is enough to guarantee a living, while neither special nor professional students may have any certain means, of support. What right a tutor or professor has to a proctorship, in preference to a graduate who may be practising law or medicine in Cambridge, it would probably be difficult to prove...