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...matches. Better weather conditions could hardly have been asked. The air was bracing, without being too cold; there was not wind enough to interfere with the shooting, and the clear light gave uninterrupted view of the swiftly flying birds. As was to be expected, the scores showed the effect of the forced in action during the mid-years, and failed to reach the usual high average. The next meeting of the club, March 4, will probably bring out a large number of men. A match between scrub teams, shot at the close of the regular matches, resulted in a victory...
...gibes and jests at the expense of Vassar college and Vassar college girls, which thoughtless paragraphers and would-be humorists produce with tiresome redundance, while not establishing the reputation of the authors as wits, are said to be having a disastrous effect upon the college itself. One of the Vassar professors is quoted by a New York paper as saying that the college has not more than half the students it had ten years ago, and the cause of the falling off he ascribes to the fact that the college and its students have become a standing target...
...patient! we shall reap as much as if we worked. But this is not an inevitable conclusion; on the contrary, that very law which decrees that all things shall follow necessarily from their causes, decrees that our least effort, our most trifling act, shall not lack its proportionate effect. True, all future events are determined, but only because their antecedents were determined first: and so far from the truth is it that we cannot change our destiny, that in fact we cannot but change it. If we work, we turn the current of our lives in one direction...
...greater number. Nor do we believe that this has been the motive of the committee. In each case they have been led by moral reasons, either in accordance with their crusade against professionals or, as in the case of foot-ball, from their belief in its brutalizing effect...
...must also add that only one complaint was put in the Complaint box in four weeks, and that was to the effect that only four chairs were left in the gallery. I am very happy to say that the other fourteen were needed in the Hall...