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Bernhard Ten Brink's "History of English Literature," a work universally admitted by the best judges to be the most excellent and scholarly ever written on the subject, is to be reprinted in this country by Holt & Co., New York...
...Columbiad, just issued, has given universal satisfaction, and is considered the best publication of that nature ever issued. Some of the typographical errors were very amusing, especially those in the Athletic Records, where that most stupid of mortals, a printer's devil, has made a Hercules, Jr., throw a hammer "36 sec. ; " a bicycle ride two miles in " 13 ft., " and the running broad jump, a marvel...
...return at once to Memorial. Men can no longer stay away because of cheaper board with better food elsewhere; for there is now a strong guarantee that the price of board at the hall will not exceed $4.25 per week; while the quality of the food is better than ever before, and most certainly superior to any that can be obtained outside at the same price. But this attempt to adapt the hall to the needs of the large number - the majority it is believed - of students, who ask for simple, wholesome fare at low rates, can only meet with...
...individual style of canoeing fails to arouse a lasting-interest. Recent experiments and improvements in canoe sailing have introduced an entirely new phase of the sport, and removed a vast deal of unnecessary labor. We hear every summer of the pleasant cruises of countless clubs, yet nothing has ever been done here to inaugurate such a movement." Such considerations as these would apply with equal force at Harvard. There are many reasons why there should be a canoe club here; canoeing is emphatically a college sport; more than twenty years ago it flourished at Oxford and Cambridge, and, like many...
...Yale freshmen have the prestige of former victories to back them. But there is one advantage that we have given them from year to year for which there is no necessity. I refer to the habit of playing the first game at New Haven. Ever since '74's freshman year, with three exceptions, every class has played its first game in New Haven. Why is this? Every one knows the advantage of playing on one's grounds. At New Haven, the Yale men are of course accustomed to their grounds and are surrounded by their own friends, before whom they...