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...game gave the college an estimate of our Eleven. And although the snap with which the forwards played and their brilliant passing was a pleasant surprise to every one, I hope you will permit me to mention in your columns one point in which our team seems to need careful coaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 10/14/1884 | See Source »

Perhaps there is but little need of reminding the college that today the first foot ball game of the season will take place on Jarvis Field, the game being with the Institute of Technology eleven. But to the eleven the game is of importance. It is to be the first test of what our men are capable of doing, and will show better than practice of a dozen afternoons, what promise there is of a good eleven this fall to play for the college championship. The players who will eventually form our eleven are not definitely fixed upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/11/1884 | See Source »

...been casually stated, Brown University is to have a new gymnasium, something which it has long needed. The movement began at the last annual meeting of the alumni in June, when a committee of ten arumm was selected to take the matter in charge. As the common fund of the college will not admit of any sum being appropriated for this need, it is proposed to acquire the amount by subscription. The sum which will be needed is estimated at $80,000, and of this about $50,000 will be used to erect and equip a building, first class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Gymnasium for Brown. | 10/8/1884 | See Source »

Although the examination feature of the new system is regretted by some, the other changes are so good that they more than counterbalance the evil. The advantage of the printed subjects are so numerous and manifest that we need not mention them. The new instructors in forensics are evidently determined to arouse more interest in their work and hope to be able to offer the students more instruction than heretofore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/8/1884 | See Source »

...wonder there are not more; these would be checked by the presence of a good man in the yard. We do not want a policeman who shall exercise at all the functions of a proctor with the students-that would do more harm than good. But we do need a policeman who shall enforce our right to inhabit peacefully our yard and our fields, who shall make outsiders "move on" and who shall deliver us of this mucker nuisance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1884 | See Source »