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...enfeebled by long inhaling the pestiferous air of ague-breeding regions." One would fancy it a charming place for fellows obliged to leave college on account of ill health. But we caution such against the examinations. They have them once a month! The annual examination takes place at the end of the College year, and is conducted before "a disinterested committee of gentlemen of education from various districts of the State." The catalogue does not explain itself, but we suppose they are proctors...
...last ten minutes of the first three-quarters, Princeton "braced up," and drove it up towards their goal. McCosh of Princeton made a very pretty kick that was much applauded, as was also Ballard's run; but Princeton showed want of practice in passing the ball. At the end of the first three-quarters the game stood: Harvard, one touch-down; Princeton, nothing...
...with the foot-ball game of last Saturday which deserve notice. The police arrangements were the worst we have ever seen at any match game in Cambridge; many rowdies and other persons without tickets entered the grounds and took seats before play had begun, and the scene at the end of the first half of the game, when the "muckers," unrestrained in the least degree by the police, rushed in and covered the grounds, was highly discreditable to all those who had the management of the game. The view of the ladies on the lower benches was obstructed for some...
...feather is very uneven, and at present the defects are as follows: a tendency to neglect the end of the stroke, a quick rush of the arms till straight, and a hang before the body follows, ending with a marked pause on the full reach...
...happiness, to be doing good to others and to be getting good from them in return? One cannot imagine an organ-grinder to be a scamp. Take the blackest scoundrel and let him go out into the country and grind a barrel-organ for ten days, and at the end of that time, what with the circle of delighted faces constantly around him and the humanizing effect of so much music, he will have recovered all the innocence that used to be his, when, at the age of six, he tagged around after the superior being who carried...