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...their efforts that the society assumed such a high literary standard. According to the constitution, a board of three editors were to be appointed, whose duty it was to present alternately, at intervals of two weeks, a paper not to exceed thirty minutes in length. At every meeting of the society debates were held and were conducted very much like the Harvard Union debates, except that members of the society only were allowed to attend. The length of the debates was limited to two hours. Members were elected by tens, and a vote of two-thirds of all members present...
...hounds arrived there the bags were found, and the break was made across Boylston bridge and up that street to the gymnasium. The first hares in were Cogswell, '88, Harlow, '88 and Miles, '88. They found that the hares had arrived about half an hour before them. The length of the run was about ten miles, slow hunt, and the scent was very plainly laid. The main body of the hounds were greatly hampered by a few of their number who persisted in keeping far in the rear. Hereafter two hunts a week will be given, on Tuesdays and Fridays...
...shoulders and in the increased strength of all parts of the body, while the girth of the neck, waist and calves, the depth of chest and abdomen, the breadth of neck, waist and hips seem to respond more slowly. The total height is slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm and foot are at first hardly altered. In the athletic class, the excess in development of the right arm tends to establish the fact that our popular games give more...
...writer then mentions at length the social life of the students in the towns, there being very little opportunity for good society save in the families of the professors. "I must not omit one important social factor. Seven miles distant, across the valley, in Northampton, is Smith College, one of the leading woman's colleges in the East, nad a factor not to be ignored in any problem that concerns Amherst. Very few men go through collge without making their bow at Smith at least once, and about a fifth call there frequently. A reception in the winter, a concert...
...Yale Literary Magazine made its first appearance this year in its October number, and is remarkable for the high standard and general excellence of its pieces. Perhaps the most praiseworthy are "Count Tolstoi and My Confession," and a beautifully expressed poem, of much greater length than the average literary poem. As a whole, the pieces show more thought than usual and predict a bright year in our literary life...