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Hamilton trouser-stretcher, $2.00; the finest pure-wool hand-knit sweaters; also the regular line of woven worsted gymnasium goods; plenty of gymnasium shoes, rubbers and overshoes...
Thus link by link is knit the flaming chain
...varsity eleven appeared yesterday in their new uniforms. The suit consists of a dark crimson, thickly knit jersey with a white "H," a canvas jacket, crimson stockings and belt, and breeches of thick mole-skin of a creamy white. These are the features of the uniform. They have a thick hair mattress padding on each knee and each hip, and cling close to the leg just below the knee. The uniforms altogether present a good appearance, although they are now a little too clean...
...dinner was ended at an early hour. The recreant members of the class should regret their absence at an extremely pleasant class reunion. Every one present felt that the ties of class friendship were being more closely knit, and that their love for and pride in class and classmates were increased more than ever...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...