Word: laterizing
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...freshmen, who will be brought face to face with the Andover and Exeter elevens later in the fall, will read with interest a few facts on the relative merits of those teams as given in the Exonian. It says: "We have no grounds upon which to assume any superiority, and cannot, therefore, speak too encouragingly of victory this fall. Andover is trying, with every possible effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail...
...first have and hounds run. At a quarter past four a score or so of men had collected about Matthews to see the start, and the hares, S. Abbot, '87, and F. B. Lind, '88, were sent off by the timekeeper, Mr. F. Remington, '87. Seven minutes later the hounds eleven in number, with Brandt, '85, the master of hounds at their head, started in pursuit. The scent lay across the common, up Concord Avenue, over fields and fences near the Cambridge reservoir, and then along the south end of Fresh Pond. Once or twice the scent was badly scattered...
Each officer of the University who resides in Cambridge can obtain two tickets at the Bursar's office on Wednesday, October 15, between 9 A. M. and 1 P. M. Price of tickets, $3 each for the course. Tickets for the public will be on sale later at Sever...
...President Porter's reply, and it is an effort well calculated to provoke serious reflection and, perhaps, conviction. English is declared unequal "academically" with Latin and Greek. A thorough knowledge of the classics is declared necessary, while History and Political Economy and subjects akin to them are reserved for later reading. Modern languages and Science are given the preparatory schools as their proper sphere. Whether the conservative ideas of President Porter have been formulated into the recent unquestionably radical reforms at Yale, or whether the changes were simply to aid the "outside individual efforts" of the students is an open...
...instructor can teach. It is a miniature world which is to prepare men for the greater world outside, and if one holds aloof now from these cares and interests, and organized activities, he will get from his college life only a part of its benefits. Besides, there are later in college life other organizations and other honors, which one is not likely to get if he holds aloof now. And to finish with an unimportant, but very practical consideration, many of the organizations that we have mentioned as open to freshmen, give their members a "shingle," so-called, which makes...