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...fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages of an old and heavily-endowed school. This brought out a bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with a college education could wield great influence in the new West and establish here an ideal empire which combined all the best of the older States, were made by the various speakers who followed...
...upon the managers, for the lack of management displayed, we do desire to register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation to a few of the students, a sop to Cerberus, will not lull the students in general to overlook the inconveniences arising from the preparation of the gymnasium for general social purposes, the danger from a slippery floor, and the misplacement of apparatus. We do not wish to grumble, or seem unreasonable; we would simply uphold the old mixim, of "a place for everything and everything in its place...
...doors unable to secure even standing room. This is an occurrence which should not be allowed to happen again. The next lecture should be given in Sanders Theatre. When the Historical Society gave its war lectures two years ago, the theatre was used for the concluding evenings, and gave general satisfaction. With this as a precedent, there is no reason why Dr. Brooks should be compelled to address his audience in a room whose size is wholly inadequate for this purpose...
...sorely tempted to say with Jeffrey "This will never do." While the two leading articles, those by Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Fullerton, are admirable in their tone of life and good health, the remaining papers force upon the reader an uncomfortable sense of his own and the general wretchedness...
...course of training the crew practices consists in running and walking three or four miles each day, generally out of doors, and then general exercise in the gymnasium, where they row from three to four hundred strokes on the hydraulic rowing machines, and then the calisthenics are finished off with a bath...