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...main the number is filled with matters of University news, which have accumulated during the past three months and with reprints of speeches or extracts from reports that have already been published. Consequently it will have a fresher interest for those of its readers who have not been in close touch with the University during the past months...
...sort were compiled for the contributors to the college papers. Generations of undergraduates replace one another so rapidly that it is no fault of the newcomers if they are ignorant how worn are many of the terms that delight them with their novelty and fitness. How much fresher and more individual would critical articles in the Monthly be if authors were forbidden to use such terms as these, selected from a single article in the current number: "Finely critical," "sensuous couplets," "instinctive felicity," "subtilely conscious," "meretricious!" What a relief if we should never again meet the parenthetic "then" near...
...distance. In such cases a three-mile race is less exhausting to the competitors. The longer the race, the greater the strain on the men; and conversely, the shorter the race, the quicker the recovery afterwards. In many races it has been observed that the winning crew usually finishes fresher than its competitors. This happens not so much because the elation of leading and winning cheers and strengthens the crew, as because the winning crew commonly is originally in the best condition. The four-mile race also requires more training than is possible with due regard for the exigencies...
Townsend of Columbia and Thacher of Harvard showed the most proficiency with the foils, and their bout was the best of the evening. The Harvard man had apparently saved himself for this bout. Both were wary and cool, Thacher appearing fresher than the Columbia representative. Thacher's thrusts were well calculated and delivered, while Townsend's defence and position were excellent. After four minutes of skilful thrusting and parrying, which evoked much applause, Thacher was declared the winner by a vote...
...extra round was in favor of Smith who appeared the fresher of the two and his heavy blows on Monroe's wind told...