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...their last year's team, notably that fine rusher, Henry. Thus far Princeton has shown up in the best form, and the team of '82 is by far the strongest they have yet placed in the field, while that of Harvard is not up to the mark of their '81 team. Yale is said to be much stronger in kicking than ever before, while the hopes of Harvard seem to have been placed on the rushing ability of their men. Experience has shown that while plucky tackling offsets the rushing of heavy weights, good kicking is not so easily...
...Harvard, Westgate of Wesleyan, Williams of Brown and Rice of Williams. The leading topic brought up in this meeting was "Philosophy;" next fall the subject will be "Modern History." The chief interest in the session centred on the treatise prepared and delivered by the aged and honored philosopher, Mark Hopkins, of Williams, entitled, "The Best Method of Teaching Philosophy...
...late noticed, especially among freshmen, a tendency to come into morning prayers after the exercises have begun. We wish to inform freshmen, and remind all others, that according to a regulation of the faculty tardiness counts just the same as a cut; consequently the monitors have no right to mark present a man who comes in late. But whether or not a man saves a cut by so doing, the custom is a disagreeable one, to say the least. Within the last two weeks the exercises have been seriously interrupted half a dozen times by a few men coming...
...imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three rousing cheers for Tom Hammersmith! Three cheers more for Mark Sibley Severance, chronicler! Yes, and three more for 'Fair Harvard!' 'May they live long and prosper!'" Well done, Rip Van Winkle...
...other day I marked 98 deg. in the shade, my high-water mark. I happened to meet a neighbor ; so we mopped our brows at each other ; he told me he had just cleared 100 deg., and I went home a beaten man. I might suspect his thermometer (as indeed I did, for we Harvard men are apt to think ill of any graduation but our own,) but it was a poor consolation." - [J. R. Lowell...