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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...probable that another Hare and Hounds meet will be held this fall, and before the next one we would like to make one or two suggestions: first, that the time allowance given to the hounds should be lengthened to ten minutes, and, secondly, that instead of enticing embryo athletes into a run of fifteen miles, with a notice of a course of "about six miles," some more definite idea of the distance be given. Would it not be well to name the place furthest off (for instance, Waverley) that the course would touch, so that a man could have some...
...most welcome to the entire College, - instructors as well as students. The Corporation are to be most heartily thanked for this extension of our times of rest. Report says, however, that the reason of this change is that the college year is thirty-nine weeks long this year, instead of thirty-eight; and, as this extra week is out of the common course, it is to be given us in vacation. It is a well-known fact that the large majority of instructors and students think that the ordinary recesses are insufficient; and we would strongly urge the Corporation...
...Instead of two cats there warn...
...several crooked little points are also done away with. In the new stroke, the reach is shorter than heretofore, to insure a strong and steady grip of the water, and to save the additional exertion formerly used in putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five degrees. As soon as the blade is far enough back, the head is thrown back, and the catch is immediate and strong. Instead of continuing the slide to a definite number of inches, the whole is used, thus giving the legs sufficient opportunity...
...likes to go into a three-hour examination without making some review of the subject; nor, we think, does any man wish to study during the extremely short winter-vacation which is allowed us. But the new arrangement, which makes the Semi-annuals begin on the 21st of January instead of on the 6th or 7th of February, forces us to do one of these two things. Either reviewing must be done before we go home, and left to lie fallow in the holidays, or we must attempt to go over about four months' work, in five or six subjects...