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...number of seats, - set the limit, say, at five. On this application he should state in order of preference the sections in which he wants his tickets. All of these applications should be sent in by, say, the end of this week. This would give the graduates time to learn of the way the seats would be sold, and send in their orders. Then on Saturday evening (our dates of course are merely suggestive), let the management of the nine draw the applications by lot and set aside for each applicant his tickets. It might or it might...
...demand for lessons in his methods of memorizing, writes me that if a hundred names are sent in he will come to Cambridge and give the three lessons personally, at his usual fee of five dollars for each person taught. It will doubtless give your readers pleasure to learn that he expresses the intention, if the course is given, of making a gift of the profits to the Psychological department of the University, which (I need hardly say!) is in need of funds...
...also most satisfactory to learn that the rumors of attempted suicide that have been running wild, are entirely unfounded, and that the shooting was entirely accidental. Worman was examining an old navy revolver, which hung rusting on the wall for years, and which no one supposed to be loaded, when it exploded, and nearly cost him his life...
...enough for them that they were ahead, and so they did not play their best or make very strenuous efforts to increase their lead. A slightly stonger batting team than Hopkinsons would have won the game. One of the first things that the team will have to learn is that every game, no matter how weak the opposing team, demands their strongest play. To play by spurts will never accomplish much, while it weakens the work of the nine as a whole and developes laziness. It is too early to expect the team play to be what it ought...
...much less than was hoped for, before the recess. Saturday, the wind and water were so bad, that the crew did not row in the afternoon. Again, Monday, the conditions were bad, but the crew went out, and got some exercise, even if they did not learn anything in rowing...