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Some of the Lacrosse team were practising on Holmes field yesterday afternoon...
...that the student who has confined his mind to one particular course of study has the better education. The man who leads a mercantile life after graduation has by a liberal education formed, as it were, an index in his mind, to which he can refer. A large field of thought has been opened to him, each separate branch of which he has not pursued to any great degree, but with such slight knowledge as he has gained, he knows where to refer when any subject is under consideration. To the ordinary business man the fields of science, language...
From a brief survey of the base-ball arena, it would seem that the college contest of '82 would be the most closely contested ever known. Every nine is in training, and each will appear on the field with a new pitcher. - [Brunonian...
...disregarded, and the statement of fact given in the extract stands as a convincing argument for sceptics. Indeed, the question is hardly a debatable one at all. Reason does not need to be convinced; it is only popular prejudice that is to be refuted and driven from the field, and in this all fair statistics are a certain and invincible ally. It is the statement of Matthew Arnold, in his book on "Higher Schools in Germany," that it is coming to be a recognized fact in England that the educated business men of Germany are beating the English "countinghouse" merchants...
...their patrons until they were frightened into making an effort at improvement by the inception of a new railroad scheme. Why, then, should they expect the citizens of Cambridge to favor them? A rumor has been started to the effect that the new horse-railroad will cut through Jarvis Field, and otherwise injure real estate. This is not true; on the contrary, the new road will furnish a direct line to Boston, and when extended, as it is proposed eventually to do, will include Brookline, Somerville, Charlestown, and other suburban towns. It is said that there is not travel enough...