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...Make in vain a poor defence...
...tried to prepare a brief resume of those rules, in the hope that it will prove of interest to the readers of the Magenta. I must first, however, premise that almost all my information is derived from the printed regulations, so that my readers must pardon me if I make mistakes in statements about matters which are not found in those documents...
...with one or two exceptions, sung as well as we are accustomed to hear them here. The Club were evidently nervous during the first part of the evening, and consequently did not sing "Comrades in Arms," which opened the concert, as effectively as usual. "The Three Glasses" failed to make a sensation, as was expected, owing to the fact that it was sung loud all through. The "Ave Maria" was finely given, and was encored, as were the majority of the pieces. The "Polka" made the most decided "hit" of the evening, and was applauded as rapturously after, as before...
...time will have come for long walks. That happy afternoon when the hieroglyphics on your tabular view are not underscored will be devoted to exploring the surrounding country. When the interest of sight-seeing is added to the exhilarating effects of bodily exercise, we have every quality that can make an-out-door sport attractive; and long walks take a deservedly prominent place in the catalogue of our amusements...
Unfortunately, at the beginning of the present year I had thoroughly "done" Cambridge and all the surrounding towns, with the exception of Concord and Lexington, to which I propose to make a pilgrimage on the coming 19th of April. While I was thus sighing for new worlds to conquer, I suddenly discovered a new continent of untried possibilities in the editorial columns of a last year's Magenta. I resolved never again to omit the reading of that invaluable paper. What I had discovered was no less than a new and practical idea on the subject of walking. I perceived...