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...Rogers, '87, S. H. Fessenden, '86, and D. B. Chamberlain, '86, in standing high jumping. F. B. Fogg, '85, who was entered did not appear. All the men cleared the bar the first time. Chamberlain's jumping, although effective, was marked by effort and lack of grace. As the bar went up Bachelder first retired. Soon afterward Fessenden failed to clear the bar. Rogers and Chamberlain continued, until Rogers missed after three trials. Chamberlain. Chamberlain was thus left the winner, with a record of 4 feet 8 1-2 inches...
...Germans, French and Scots are making in athletic sports and gymnastic exercises. "We need in America," said the doctor, "a happy combination of all the systems of athletic development as practiced in these countries-the German for strength, the English and Scotch for sport, and the French for grace. The Western States adopt for the most part the German method, the Eastern and Middle States hail with delight the English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good in its way, but in order to make perfect bodies and clear heads...
...professional taint or of undue excess was ever made. Indeed the gap between the two methods of reform is not so very wide. Not-withstanding these consideration however, we believe the college stands ready to accept the experiment of the faculty and test its new system with good grace and even with willing cooperation, provided that it be reasonably forewarned and be treated with justness and fairness so that its position may not become forced and unnatural, through inconsistent regulations, and ambiguous proceedings on the part of the faculty...
...dragged from his coach and murdered in the streets, long ago, and of many others. The hall itself, is long and narrow with windows high on the sides. The benches are hard but the food provided is always good. At one end is an altar, over which grace is always said before each meal. Passing on from here we come to the library which contains 250,000 volumes, many of them of great age and value. The most precious is undoubtedly the famous "Book of Kells," an old illuminated work on parchment, of rare merit as a work...
...long as it exists, it might very justly be reformed in certain points. Especially so as to the time of infliction. We think it is manifestly unfair for andinstructor to hold one without at least two weeks warning, and not as recently,-with a paltry forty-eight hours of grace to the unfortunate section. This should be an unalterable rule; the next important is the matter of marking on hour examinations. Unless such examinations are announced at the beginning of the year, it is, strictly speaking, unfair to give to them more than a provisional value, for many are unable...