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...aims and methods of the Illustrated Magazine differ in important respects from those of most of the student publications in the University. It makes no attempt to confine its list of contributors to the College; it deals with subjects of general public interest as well as with intramural matters; and besides literature it seeks to cultivate the art of the illustrator and to practice topical journalism. While this breadth and diversity of aim give an opportunity for appealing to a wider range of interests, they necessarily make the magazine less characteristic of Harvard, and less illuminating of the life here...
...system of training can be entirely efficient without the aid of a training table. In the first place it affects the athlete's health, for he must have nourishing food, served at regular times and adapted to the hours of practice. To get these conditions the table must differ from the ordinary standard even though the changes are slight. Moreover, it is only fair to the trainer to allow him to watch the men at meals, for in no other way can he surely discover that a man is out of condition. Men have frequently been sent on time trials...
...felt, in his bluff, great-hearted manliness, his humor, and his sympathy. He loved men and was in turn beloved. Like other men remarkably fertile in plans and suggestions, he found his judgments and conclusions often questioned--no man has been oftener disagreed with; but however much one might differ with him in opinion, one found that the bond of affection grew steadily stronger. No subject that involved the sons of men or their concerns was foreign to his interest; if there was one he had not thought about, he was ready to think about it, and to say what...
...these researches he showed that he had absorbed to a remarkable degree the knowledge of our time in regard to what was once called the Correlation of Forces, and which is now termed Transformation of Energy. I never left him without a mental stimulus which led me either to differ or reflect. His mind was like an electrical discharge in a tube of rarified gas, a flash light, enormously suggestive. He was seen at his best in some meeting of earnest men, unlearned, but men of affairs, capable of grasping fundamental ideas. There he was the scientific protagonist bringing...
...executive committee of the Handball Association is framing a set of rules to be published. One hundred copies will be placed on sale at the C0-operative, and 100 will be sent to universities and colleges throughout the country. These rules will differ somewhat from the code now in use among professional players...