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Doubtless the field best known throughout the world as devoted solely to sport and recreation is "Lords," the great cricket field of London, the home of the famous Marylebone Club. It has a peculiar and not uninteresting history, having been started about a hundred years ago, and having twice changed its location. The history is thus related in the Quarterly Review...
...recent meeting of the Princeton base ball association, Capt. C. H. Clark resigned his position as captain, as he will not have enough time to train the nine. He will, however, retain his place in the left field. Duncan Edwards, '85, was elected captain...
...manly indifference to mere bodily ills, and an indomitable courage against all odds, a cowardly dread of all hurts? Do we not see that that is the case in the growing popularity of the safe but effeminate lawn tennis, and the substitution of artificial gymnastics for the healthier field sports of our transatlantic ancestors? The long line of puny, pale-faced, pimply youth to be seen to day in our midst must be protected; they must be put back in the nursery where big boys cannot bruise their sickly frames. How refreshing it would be to see a foot ball...
...while at Cornell the instruction given by nonresident lecturers, is a prominent feature of the college curriculum. Harvard cannot take her just position as a university till free opportunities of this sort are offered. It is true that Boston, particularly by means of the Lowell Institute, partially fills this field; but for the average student, and even for the ardent specialist at Harvard, Boston is practically inaccessible, except on rare occasions...
...undertake such matters, it might supplement its regular instruction in English literature by a more extended course by the same distinguished critic and scholar. Or again, Mathew Arnold, when he makes his proposed second visit to America, could be secured to give a course of lectures in the same field before the university. Such lectures would be strictly academic, and would be in the proper line of university work...