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...also said that "Flying Childers" ran 1-2 mile in 20 sec. His stride or leap was measured and found to be a trifle over thirty feet. He was never known to cover less that 25 ft. at every stride...
...every man who cares to do so can spend an hour at the club house with the hope of meeting the men whom he meets every day in the yard, and with the same probability of a more intimate acquaintance, the club will prove but little else than a covered highway, offering the same opportunities and no more than the corridor of many of the city hotels. This plan it is said will obviate the present tendency to the formation of cliques. This is far from assured. These so-called cliques are no more or less groups of men formed...
Instead of ten arbitrary questions upon ten single points which could by no possibility adequately cover the ground gone over in the course during the half-year, and whose answers could be but a very poor criterion of the student's knowledge of the course at best; these papers have contained either fewer questions, but of a comprehensive character such as would allow the student an opportunity to show whether he could write intelligently upon the subject, or else there have been many more questions in order that the student might have an option in his choice of subjects...
...enthusiasts on the subject of flooding Holmes Field to consider "both sides of the question before advocating their plan, so ardently before their college." The writer names an objection which he seems to think explodes the whole scheme; namely, that three feet of water will be needed "to cover amply all the undulations and irregularities on the surface of such a large field." The gentleman might as well have made the number of feet ten or twenty instead of three; for they would have sounded more formidable, and would have stated the case just as truly...
...noted carefully the irregularities on the field when it was covered with snow-ice; and unless the gentleman would wish to cover the back-stop fence, I am convinced that five or six inches of water would make as smooth a field of ice as three or four feet would. Every winter a mass of snow-ice accumulates on Holmes Field, sometimes to a considerable depth; none of the dire calamities which the gentleman predicts would follow artificial flooding, have ever yet occurred, and I am sure a few inches of ice will have no perceptible effect on the field...