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...introduction. A succinct history, many will admit, of the beginnings of many similar student enterprises. A writer of a review article in one of the first pages gives a rather forcible statement of the condition of instruction at the college at that time. He says: "Educated in the old manner, and whipped, from our earliest days, into an acquaintance with the languages, mythologies and histories of the ancient nations, we have been obliged to remain in utter ignorance in respect to most other departments of literature." And in another place he indicates again the reaction that was going on during...
...feats daily, or to throw the hammer every afternoon, they would probably discover that this sport is not so difficult as it looks, and, having shaken that coat of "indifference," would raise the college records by livelier competition. Perhaps we may ascribe this neglect to the unavailable manner in which the shot and hammer are stored away. Let us suggest they be exposed to the public view. But this latter objection does not hold in regard to the running long jump, since the sod is always turned on Jarvis. The custom is for men to enter the sports without practice...
...editresses of the Lasell Leaves. They, poor aspirants for journalistic fame, are obliged to subject all their manuscript and "copy" to the judgment of one who has the right to cut and slash the scented, pink-paper copy as he sees fit, and who, no doubt, in this manner robs the Leaves of many of its best articles, and certainly of its originality. The fairness of this we are inclined to question...
...rule, requiring a gain of five yards in three successive downs, settles this difficulty in a most thorough manner...
...small but deeply interested audience attended the lecture of Professor Packard of Yale on the "OEdipus Tyrannus." The subject is one specially interesting to students at Harvard, and Professor Packard handled his text in a manner quite acceptable to his audience. Taking the object of this course of lectures into account, it is a matter of surprise that there was not a larger audience present...