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...committee elected by the tennis players from among themselves, this committee arbitrating in cases of dispute. This would, we think, be the fairest way for all concerned, and would prevent the unmannerly scramble to get on the ground first, which will surely result from the want of some systematic method of disposing of the courts...
...Mathematics, while Rhetoric is entirely neglected; but if that were made a prescribed study of the Freshman year, we could then enter upon our Sophomore year thoroughly prepared to write our themes with a greater degree of satisfaction to ourselves and to the instructors, while under the present method most of us have almost entirely forgotten the knowledge of English which we once possessed...
...gentlemen who advised the present method of correction must have given careful consideration to the matter before they came to any conclusion, and must have thought the present method the best which could be devised. It seems to us, however, that with such a change as we have attempted to explain, while the expense to the College would be increased, yet the benefit derived by the student from the writing of themes would be correspondingly greater, and would be well worth the extra outlay involved...
...knit though slender and youthful frame was encased in plane armor adorned with original propositions. His sword (the one with which Archimedes was killed) was a straight line with some breadth and a handle added. His helmet was skilfully made of two pi's and a square R. The method by which it was made was a secret to every one, including Sir Triangle himself. The whole bearing of this knight was such as to strike terror into the hearts of inexperienced foes. Next to him and scarcely inferior in all knightly qualities was the gigantic Sir Proctor de Holys...
...mind quite as undesirable; but if, in talking to and of our teams, we should be willing to acknowledge their short comings when they exist, and not to give their existing good points more praise than they deserve, it seems to us we should be adopting the right method to put our athletics on a firm and lasting basis...