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...their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair and feed their minds on what takes the least mental effort. They wish that something would happen . . . A few men seem to be able to operate indefinitely on a very little sleep . . . But the chances are a hundred to one that you are not [able] . . . Nature always collects her bills...
...poet ... he was in duty bound to praise the monarchs. . . . But what is out of the common is that, when he had performed this duty ... he resumed his right of free speech as a citizen to say to those men, who 'were men like ourselves,' he thought, and 'who happen to have been born kings,' what were their obligations, their responsibilities, the faults of theirs that should be amended, for the good, not only of their own soul, but of their people and country...
...Harvard Club of Washington, D. C., has invited all Harvard men who happen to be in the vicinity during the Christmas Recess to attend its regular weekly luncheon at the--University Club at 1 o'clock, December 27. This luncheon, which has become an annual affair, has been attended in the past by practically all of the Harvard undergraduates who live in and around Washington...
...Time," he continued, "counts for everything in observing eclipse. Two or three weeks before its occurrence we have to go through all the motions of taking the photographs. Sometimes the slide will stick, or the camera may not be in working order. Nothing like this can be allowed to happen on the day of the eclipse. We must be absolutely sure that everything is in perfect order, and we must practice for speed. In the past, I have often had the stop watch on me, as I practiced changing the slides. A few seconds makes all the difference...
...first time in recent years the University team will leave the turf of the stadium to play a game other than in the Palmer Stadium or the Yale Bowl. This will happen when the team journeys to Providence on November 14 to play Brown in one of the dedication games of the Brunonians new stadium. This step has been taken in appreciation of Brown's courtesy in playing in Cambridge for the last 30 years...