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Members will please correct the list of affiliated tradesmen as printed in November, 1883, by making the following changes...
...position in the league. If, when the full control of the base-ball interests are in the hands of the undergraduates, they fail to give the nine that enthusiastic support which alone will induce men to train, and do not take interest enough in its success to correct any abuses which may have crept into the management, it is hardly probable that taking the contest out of their hands will cause any great wave of enthusiastic interest in the fate of the nine to sweep over the college. The secret of our success in those branches of athletics where...
...student, was surprised one morning to find that his marks were low, and the other man's were high. The professor had evidently mixed up the names, and Jones remonstrated. An adjustment was promised; yet next month came the same mistake. For the third month the marks were correct; the fourth time brought around the same error...
...language, enabling beginners to remember and spell Latin words more easily. However, the disadvantages which the representatives of these schools met upon entering Harvard and other colleges where the new method was used soon induced the authorities of the schools to change the pronounciation to the new but more correct method. As Exeter is largely a so-called Harvard school, this important change in the pronounciation of the language cannot fail to increase its advantages as a fitting place for Harvard and to bind it still more closely to our college...
...honor of winning such a prize, Every student who excelled in a single one of the seven points would have reason to become a candidate, and would be led to do the best he could in the other six branches. The tendency of this competition would be to correct the undue estimate now placed on college rank; to turn the attention of the students to the impartial development of all their powers...