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...skilful physician, counsels. No one ever heard of an accident there. How many young and old men find athletic exercise the only safeguard against dyspepsia or insomnia? It is time this tirade against college athletics ceased. American students, despite all that has been said to the contrary, need rather encouragement than discouragement in respect to rational athletic training. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...been suggested that one reason for the inadequate supply of hot water at the gymnasium is due to the continual waste of water in the shower bath. Men go into the shower-bath room and, turning on the warm water, will leave it running when there is no need of it. In the early part of the afternoon, when there are comparatively few men using the room, there is no necessity of keeping the water running continually. If every man would simply take the slight trouble of turning the faucet when he steps from under the bath, much water would...
Without desiring to be impertinently suggestive to those who know their duty, it would perhaps be a good thing as the mid-years approach, to draw up a list of the different characteristics of that season that seem to need a remedy. There will be no use grumbling after the occasion has passed, and the best time for mentioning the subject is just before the preparations are made by the authorities...
...proctors are mortals like ourselves. A good many people are under the same hallucination that Phyllis was in "Iolanthe," until she found out with surprise that the fairy, Iolanthe, "kisses just like other people." Proctors, on close inspection, are found to be surprisingly like other students. Although there is need of some reform in regard to the performance of their duties, yet, on the whole, the institution deserves to exist, if for no other reason, merely because it spends the money of the university in a meritorious...
...believe there is need of saying more. The evil can easily be remedied and doubtless will be, when its extent is fairly represented to the director of the gymnasium. Any one who has had the experience that I have had with these icy baths will testify that I have not stated the case too strongly...