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Yours, '81."Sept. 12, 1771. Having studied late into the night last eve over that very difficult problem in Euclid, called the pons asinorum, I over-slept myself this morning beyond six o'clock. On this account I was unable to cleanse the shoes of my master F., a Senior, but was obliged to hurry to Chapel. Consequently, when I returned after breakfast, F. called me into his room, and taking down a whip he is wont to use in riding, despite my entreaties, he so belabored my shoulders that I almost fainted. This is the first occasion that...
...benefit of our jumpers, we would say, that the adoption of the National Association rules changes the manner of running broad jumping, and makes this event somewhat more difficult than under last year's rules. By the Association rules the competitor must take off behind the scratch, and the measurement will be taken from the scratch line to the first break of the ground made by any part of his person. Stepping over the line in an attempt will be "no jump," but will count as a "try." In the Intercollegiate rules the competitor was allowed to take off where...
...been little appreciated, except by those students who have closely followed the lectures. And in this connection we cannot help saying a word with reference to the work undertaken by Mr. Snow. Called suddenly to finish a course of lectures began by another, his position undoubtedly is a difficult and a trying one; and we hope that this difficulty will not be increased by the students, but that they will do all that lies in their power to make the task a pleasant and agreeable one to Mr. Snow...
...there are several points in which last year's trial suggests modification of it. Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult to see why Greek 1 of two years ago is excluded from the count, while Greek 2 is counted, as well as Greek 3, which, if difficulty be the criterion in arranging the courses, should properly be Greek...
...representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing for Freshmen crews, whose presence upon the Thames would add another element to the already sufficiently difficult task of conducting without accident the annual Harvard-Yale race...