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...executive committee of the Tennis Association request members to hire boys as "shackers" only at the entrance to Holmes field and at the entrance to Jarvis field. It is believed that if all tennis players will do this much of the annoyance now caused by the host of small boys will be done away with. Tennis players will then know where "shackers" can be had, and will be able to make some choice, while the boys, if they are hired at these places alone, will cease to annoy players on all parts of the fields. If the tennis players...
...Harvard, the "supe" will be the great attraction. The examples of the success of the new method are numerous. Who has not observed the breathless interest with which the entrance of any procession on the stage is now greeted? Perhaps it is the solemnity, the grandeur of a marching host in the background, who wend their stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes...
Although Mr. Seymour I. Hudgens has been unable, by reason of lack of pecuniary means, to return to college this year, he will always be remembered by his host of friends for his many good qualities, and by all students in the university, by reason of his faithful service on the University Crew. During the last year his first book, entitled "Exeter, School-days, and Other Poems," was published by subscription, and it is to be regretted that many of the subscribers have neglected to take and pay for their copies. The book is well made in every respect...
...could do that. Besides, that is mean, for it could never be replaced. Now, if they should blow up a college building money would fix that all right, but the idea of harming a tree! I'd like to catch them at it once." At this point our policeman host was obliged to leave and go out on his beat. Thanking him for his interesting talk, and for his kind invitation to "call again and hear more," we left, thinking to ourselves that a Cambridge policeman, after all, was not such a bad kind of a person as some think...
...said, "you shall not be the guest of an empty-handed host. We must not faint with hunger before we reach home...