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...ostensible reason for this monthly weighing is that the Faculty desire to ascertain the effect of the meals eaten by the students upon their health. If the students grow fat it will be assumed that their diet is too rich, and if they grow thin it will be regarded as evidence that they are not sufficiently fed. Whether the real end in view is to ascertain upon how little food a student can thrive, and to confine him to precisely that quantity, is not known, but there is certainly room for suspecting that this is Dr. Hamlin's design...
...held under the association laws, and making it compulsory upon the club or association holding games to provide hammer, shot and "fifty-six," and to guarantee the correct measurement and weight of the same before being used. This would insure fairness to all contestants, and would have a wholesome effect in preventing the manufacture and promulgation of fictitious records...
...incline to the opinion that Mann, of Princeton, was first on the diamond with it. Harvard's men have grounds for their belief, from the fact that the Harvard team first had a practical sight of the curve at Princeton in 1874, but as it did not have the effect of winning the game from them then, they regarded it more as a curiosity than anything of importance in the game. The fact was that Mann was so much excited about his new delivery that he did not know when to quit, and after the Harvard men had noticed that...
Last Thursday, it will be remembered, a notice was published in these columns asking all interested in shooting to meet in Holden Chapel to take steps toward the formation of a shooting club, and a notice to the same effect was posted in Memorial. In response to this call about 100 men came together and organized the club by electing officers, choosing a name and appointing committees. Among this number '85 and '84 were well represented, and every man nominated for any office by these classes was elected to that office, with the exception...
...time when the services will become voluntary. The ingenuity of the Advocate in its crusade against the choir boys is certainly remarkable and worthy of a better cause. But we do not think that any talk about the "substitution of infant squeaks for manly groans" will have any perceptible effect upon voluntary prayers. For the present at least, we must have prayers and any attempt at improvement in the services ought to be received as such...