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...looking over the Acta Columbiana for July 12, when some familiar verses in the "Exchange Notes" caught my eye. The editor had a discussion of college verses in general, and first a compliment to, and then a grind on, "Harvard Poems" in particular. He is very severe, but chooses as a "remarkable exception" and "real poetry" a beautiful little poem published in the Crimson some time ago, "Blonde and Brunette." His next choice, he says, "deserves an honorable place in college poetry," though published where he "would by no means have looked for it." namely, in the Vidette. After...
IMMEDIATELY after the Yale-Princeton game, there appeared an editorial in the New York Tribune on the subject of football. The tone of the article was against football in general, which is considered by the writer to be a "rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more...
...officer, termed Master of the Hunt, who shall have a general supervision and control of the hunt, and who, assisted by the whips, shall keep the pack together in slow hunts...
...write to you because you can't think how fond I am of you, and because I always read you, although Sophie Basdazure (do you know Sophie?) says your general tone is much inferior to that of the Aggravate. Now, you old duck, I 've a little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard...
...hall entirely clear. There are to be parallel bars of all varieties, - of the ordinary sort, high parallels, ascending bars, bars up which one can walk like a step-ladder, and one pair which can be adjusted in whatever way the user wishes. There will be no machines for general development, such as those of Dr. Winship and others; but from thirty to fifty machines intended to develop the different parts of the body, in order that no one man may take possession of a machine and monopolize it, as was too frequently the case in the past. There will...