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...tournaments - so to speak - in boxing and fencing, occasionally held in private rooms, are good in that they promote a friendly rivalry, and afford chances for practice with many different men. The only thing to be regretted is that they are such rare occurrences...
...M.THE Senior Class held their meeting for the election of officers yesterday evening. Mr. Clark was elected Chairman, and Mr. Hodge Secretary. As the first business of the meeting, Mr. Van Duzer read the report of the committee on the allotment of officers; this report was accepted. Mr. Canfield stated that the Signet desired to throw open to the class the offices allotted to it, in conformity with the belief of the members and the principles of the society. Mr. Van Duzer then offered the following resolution, recommended by the Committee on Offices...
...talents and virtues of a man have not been properly recognized in his lifetime, it is well to dwell upon them in his obituary; but the talents of Professor Dennett were such that they could not be overlooked, and it is necessary only to point to the positions he held, before reaching the age of thirty-five, to indicate what a loss we have sustained...
...race from Watertown to the spot afterwards to be made famous by the great Taft, without entangling their oars, or rather paddles, in the frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows. Peelers were unknown; offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck beak. Even the mucker element (which...
Resolved, That, as a mark of the esteem in which our classmate was held, we wear the customary badge of mourning for the usual time...