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...hope that we should suffer no longer from a lack of ventilation in the recitation rooms, and we still believe that this end might be attained if the new rooms were assigned to meet present needs and not to comply with some rigid system which satisfies no one except the complacent inventor. If preference is given to any department, it ought to be that one for which Sever is best adapted. But this has not been done. It seems that room has been found in Sever for every other department except that of History, while it has been crowded more...
III.Penalty for fouls, when judged intentional by referee (except as before provided), will be a down given to the opposite side...
Until last summer I had failed to find my ideal; but, while travelling from Portland to Bangor, I met her. The train had just stopped at a small way station; but, as I was deeply interested in "Troublesome Daughters," I paid no attention to the passengers who got in, except that I was dimly conscious of some one asking me if the seat next me was engaged. I replied "No without raising my eyes from my book. A female sat down beside me. A few minutes passed by in silence, when the woman sighed heavily. Now if there...
...necessary, as every one knows, to have these descriptions given of the courses in all the branches. They are not needed in the classics nor in the modern languages, except in some French courses. But in history, philosophy, and the sciences, much benefit might be derived from these "syllabi." It is a great advantage to have a synoptic view of a course, as it enables one to study with method and regularity. Time, which brought the elective system, will, it is hoped, bring the "syllabi" also...
...opened more auspiciously. Thayer was made captain, and all of the '75 Nine remained except Kent and Hooper. Wright, '79, proved an addition on first base, while Dow, '77, and Sawyer, '77, also showed themselves valuable acquisitions. Ernst took the pitcher's position, which he maintained for four years as no other college pitcher has done, while the outfield, Latham, 1, Tyng, m, and Dow, r, was as fine as any in the country. The last introduced the system of assisting a striker out to first: before that a hit to right field had been looked upon as safe...