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...will amount to $1,000,000 on the day for awarding the prize, it will be quite worth one's while to win it. The fact that the essay is to be written in Russian will not keep anybody from competing, for there will be plenty of time to learn that language before 1925, the year when the prize will be awarded. There is no reason whatever why some member of English 5 or 12 should not be the happy owner of the million dollars...
...more courteous spirit, nevertheless the discourtesy of wearing a hat in the hall is just as great as it ever was, and of course the discourtesy is greater if the offender be a student than if he be a stranger. It is with great surprise, then, that we learn that some of the students, boarding at the hall, actually wear their hats until they come to their tables, which sometimes are half way down the hall. This is, to say the least, discourteous. Further, it shows an unwillingness to make practice and preaching agree. All hats should be removed...
...learn with surprise from the Index that the heavyweight wrestling last winter was won by Mr. H. K. Simcoe...
...learn, however, from the last report of the Overseers that the Library now has a fund of one hundred thousand dollars from the Eben Wright estate with accrued interest, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the administration of the library. In other words the sum is not reserved for the purchase of books or for any one particular purpose, but can be devoted to any object which the library authorities may consider most necessary for a successful administration of the building in their charge...
...professional base ball players. We can suffer a while longer the crying iniquity of the misuse of the library. We can still be tamely led to worship in the darkness. We have a new field in which to trample upon Yale. Let grand tournaments be inaugurated; let us learn to play blind folded. Let us even have inter-collegiate contests. Here is a game which may even supersede tennis. Let us support it with our accustomed vigor. But if these propositions be impracticable, let us hear at least that the Chess Club is still among the living. Let the Club...