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...varsity teams at Princeton have long felt the need of a new club-house, where their training tables could be kept, and where they could conveniently come together to discuss athletic affairs. The training table for this year's foot ball team cost $2 300, a sum which the college regards as totally out of proportion to the real expense of the food, etc, Monday a meeting of the managers of the foot ball, base ball, lacrosse, and track athletic associations was held to consider the ways and means of building the new house. The foot ball management offered...
...that the university and three class crews have started in to work with a will even at this early period. This is just what the college will approve. Report has it that our 'varsity's opponents have also begun to work for the spring contests so that we shall need all the available time. The great danger in making so early a start is that the men are liable to become overworked with being tied down to steady work for so long a time; it is necessary that each man should keep in view what he is working...
...report of the Foxcroft Club is a compliment to the managers. It shows that good, substantial board can be got in Cambridge at very reasonable prices, and that hereafter no one need be kept away from Harvard on account of the high price of food. The new method by which the club will be carried on is a matter of moment. It will be noticed that the college authorities have seen best to withdraw from the direct management of the club, now that it is so well started, and that hereafter the students will have it in their own hands...
There is little need for comment on the foot ball dinner of last night. The enthusiasm which was shown was but the token of respect and admiration which the university feels for the eleven...
...Lawrence conducted the services in the University Chapel last evening, taking his text from Nehemiah iv, 20. His discourse was to show the need of wisely directed effort in the Christian church; as the text has it "Where the trumpet sounds, resort ye thither." The judgement and appropriateness with which Christ acted during his active life on earth illustrates the point; while, on the other hand, the history of the church since that time shows the consequences of misdirected energies. Profiting by the experience of former generations the great work of the Church should be to preach Christ...