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...outset. How familiar to us have grown such phrases as "freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary end. It would be strange, indeed, if eighty-nine did not possess sufficient and suitable material to form a good eleven. There are good men in the class, and they need only the proper encouragement to go on the field. With a firm determination to success the freshmen can afford to get "rattled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/27/1885 | See Source »

...better able they will be to study and conduct original investigation, and how much bigger men they will be in every way. Of all these things, it is to be hoped they will not be disappointed, that in a certain degree we believe they will not. But at the end there are two things of importance to be avoided, the danger of self-satisfaction, that is, of conceit for too much wisdom, and the danger of losing by neglect all that has actually been gained. The former danger is, the writer believes, the lesser. Four years at a college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Graduate Study. | 10/24/1885 | See Source »

Rows of new hooks have been placed at the upper end of Memorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/23/1885 | See Source »

...College House will hardly attract its proper share of attention from the outside press. Yet the catastrophe of last night is the most serious that has be-fallen the college since our worthy yard watchman found a piece of wire-wound broomstick with a firecracker inserted in one end, and promptly reported the authorities a diabolical plot to blow up the dormitory buildings of the college. If matters do not make an immediate change for the better, it will not be many moons before the entering classes will begin to show a serious falling off in numbers. College life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/23/1885 | See Source »

...dangerously sick students. We had thought that one of the first tasks of the freshman was to learn the names and uses of the various college buildings. From this communication, however, it seems that some of the undergraduates are not as yet thoroughly posted. To end the matter, then, we would remark that the yellow and white edifice on the northern side of Holmes Field is the college hospital, and we would add that the building is well fitted in every respect for the purposes for which it was built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/22/1885 | See Source »