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...happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake; sparring is a mode of defence which has a national character, as fencing has in Germany, and in the immediate vicinity of the college it is practiced at the approach of the winter meetings to such an extent that three men make...
...eyes to appreciate the reality of dormitory, yard and sanctum. The loneliness, mud, and utter confusion reigning in these places respectively were evidences, alas prima facie, that Christmas vacation has wrought changes only in ourselves. With firmer hearts, therefore, let us come squarely to the front, meet and master our foes, and gain the satisfaction of well earned rewards...
...following are the Princeton class-day officers for 1886: Master of ceremonies, C. M. DeCamp; president, M. C. Fleming; secretary, T. Evans, Jr.; orator, C. R. Erdman; poet, A. S. Mapes; ivy orator, J. Cashman; memorial orator, A. W. Durell; presentation orator, J. H. Gaines; prophet. W. S. Elder; censor, P. Bailey; historian, S. Paton...
...asked me in Italian. 'Little Russia,' I answered. 'Well, come to see me again in two weeks' he said. Two weeks passed and I presented myself to the cardinal, who for two hours spoke to me in Little Russian, and that very fluently. To my question how he could master a new language in so short a time, the prelate answered that he had known Russian already. That did not satisfy me, however, for one knowing Latin can easily learn Italian, but not within a fortnight. Since that time, for forty years I have zealously read everything that was written...
...only once were the hounds seriously at fault, and then through their own short-sightedness. The hares, A. T. Dudley, '87, and Dana, '88, started from the front of Matthews at 4.20, and they were followed after the regulation interval by a pack of thirty hounds with Webster, '87, master, at their head. The track lay first through Prof. Norton's woods and the grounds at Sandy Hill, then into Somerville, up over Winter Hill and through the back yards of "Goatville." Passing out from that delightful quarter the hounds were speeded on their way by the youthful portion...