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Middlebrook, '88, has been suffering from a severe cold, and has been unable to train with the Yale crew for the past few days...
...England climate a long-continued thaw in the middle of February means, as our ancestors used to say, that the "back of the winter is broken." Therefore, although we shall have probably several more cold snaps before the spring really opens, the cold waves will not last long. There has been much discussion of the matter of flooding Holmes field for skating purposes. That the plan proposed is quite feasible, there is no doubt. The field is nearly, if not quite, level, and not more than an average depth of six inches of water would be needed to cover...
...visitors, as they certainly did to ourselves. Since then the various athletic organizations have considerably increased the severity of their training. The University Crew, owing to the mildness of the weather, have been able to row in the harbor very frequently during the past week, but owing to this cold snap they will again have to be content with their regular gymnasium work. Long runs and walks continue to be the characteristic feature of the work of the men training for the Mott Haven team, and the candidates for the nine are necessarily still limited to their work...
...perfect recitation is called a "tear" at Princeton, "squirt" at Harvard, "sail" at Bowdoin, "rake" at Williams and "cold rush" at Amherst. A failure in recitation receives the title of "slump" at Harvard, a "stump" at Princeton, a "smash" at Wesleyan and a "flunk" at Amherst. - Amherst Student...
...food intended for Mr. S-II-v-n's hirelings, as we could hardly conceive it possible that worse food than was set before us was easily obtainable anywhere. However, this betrays a rank and horrible system of persecution and injustice. Imagine the hungry students, being fed on elegant cold slabs of colorless meat, while the poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly...