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...wish to call the attention of the Athletic Committee to the need of a spring board at the north end of the walk from Sever to Memorial. The sewers on that side of Broadway are clogged up, and on rainy days for some time it has taken a pretty good "running long" jump to clear the swelling tide. Tuesday the stream was wider than ever, and many poor jumpers failed to clear it. A spring-board on the sidewalk would save the weaker ones the trouble of going around the block...
...however, congratulate ourselves on having gained at least one point. Foot ball will not be stopped entirely. We shall be allowed to play here at Harvard, even if the Faculty sees fit to put an end to Inter-collegiate foot ball. And if this step is taken, we feel sure that before many years elapse the Faculty will have regained sufficient intelligence to allow us to again contend with other colleges in this most important and beneficial of our fall sports...
...Hockey Club posted its first notice on Saturday, Skating on Glaciates. Unfortunately the snow of yesterday put an end to all present thoughts of hockey...
...farewell to our readers, until after Christmas recess. The vacation is short, but let us be happy that this year assumes the largest power, for by a judicious strain at either end we can comfortably leave our college course for the period of two weeks. The vacation, coming as it does just before the mid-year examination, can be looked at in two very widely differing ways. Some consider it as a breathing spell in the steady grind of college work, and enjoy themselves to the utmost. Others look upon it as a special opportunity, reserved by the hand...
Webster was only a few months in preparing for college, and during that brief period he commenced and mastered the study of Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader...