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ONE of the most unpleasant things that the captain of any athletic organization has to encounter is the presence among the candidates for his team or crew of men who are actuated in their candidacy not by any desire for the good of the College, but by mere personal vanity...
COLUMBIA will have her laugh at Princeton, as the columns of the Acta show. And the Acta is very witty, and we have our suspicions that "the home of M'Cosh and malaria" is apt to be worsted in an encounter on paper.
He abhorred the theatre; for he had frequently heard his good pastor (who had never been inside one in his life, and so was a very competent judge) say that the Devil lurked behind the scenes. Percy had no desire to encounter that gentleman prematurely, and stayed away. Billiard-rooms...
EXCEPT for the unfortunate accident in the Heavy-Weight Sparring, the last day of the Winter Meeting was as successful, though not as interesting, as the previous ones. The fact that there was only one entry in each of the wrestling-classes, and that therefore no cup was given, is...
IT costs a greater effort to concede even justice to our conquerors than to be magnanimous to our conquerors than to be magnanimous to our fallen foes. Xerxes would never hear any good of the Athenians; but the Black Prince waited upon King John at table. And I, if I...