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...management of the society, indeed, the students, and not the superintendent and directors, are to blame, but we do feel that the best of judgment has not always been exercised in making purchases. For instance, there is in stock about $35 worth of calendars, worth now at the nearest junk-shop about a cent and a half a pound. It speaks well for our habits of cleanliness that the superintendent felt justified in laying in such a large stock of soap, but we think that nearly $250 worth is just a little too much. But these matters can be corrected...
...believe that all the American colleges, excepting Harvard, have an annual publication of the same nature as the Dartmouth "Aegis," which has just come to my notice. The nearest thing that we have to it at Harvard is the "Index," but our Index is not to be compared with the elaborate affair published by Dartmouth and other colleges. Our "Index" is for use and convenience only, but such a publication as the "Aegis" not only embodies a full college directory, but has hard "grinds" on the students and the faculty as well, sketches of college life, cartoons...
Rule 10. Batsman's lines six feet long by four feet wide, with its nearest line six inches from the home base...
...conditions of daily practice should be made as exactly as possible those of a match. Men get into the habit of passing just a little ahead ; of claiming downs by merely resting their hands on the ball, when in a match it would be kicked from under by the nearest opponent so quickly that the referee would never allow it ; of "bunting" so palpably as to make an evident foul ; of not kicking off from the twenty-five yard line quickly when they get a chance, etc., etc. It takes much of the snap and maneuver out of their play...
...pitiful ignorance of parliamentary rules displayed by most of them (for there are exceptions) is deplorable. What is more, it is embarrassing in the extreme to all men present to see an officer, elected to conduct their meeting, blunderingly ask advice of his secretary, of his nearest friend, of anybody who will give it. True, our meetings do not occur very frequently and students hate to bother about mere parliamentary tactics, as long as the business in hand is quickly accomplished. But for this very reason, to avoid parliamentary haggling and to expedite matters, the chairman should know...