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...that old Winter has barred the Charles alike to the single-scull and the six-oar, driven even the most enthusiastic lover of baseball from Jarvis, and made foot-ball a chill pleasure, we look around us for other means of keeping our muscles firm and our joints supple...
What kind of exercise can supply that need so well as the old and well-tried art of boxing? What is so good to teach the eye attention and he hand agility, to push back the drooping shoulder and quicken the sluggish blood; to put the whole body into a pliant, healthy condition...
...authorities had just removed the pump, which had long stood at the eastern end of Harvard. One night, some of our men, who were disturbing the peace in that dark corner, were surprised by a Professor. One, seeing escape impossible, posted himself on the spot where the old pump had been, and, holding out his arm, imitated its appearance so well that the Professor passed him by in hot pursuit of the others...
...leave of his Tutor, he shall be liable to admonition (or such punishment as the President shall think meet), if he offend above once a week. The daily services in the Hall were conducted by the President. In the morning, the undergraduates were required to read in the Old Testament from the Hebrew into Greek, excepting the Freshmen, who were allowed to use their English Bibles; and in the evening to read in the New Testament from the English or Latin into Greek. In this connection it may be mentioned that in 1688 President Increase Mather ordered from Utrecht, fifty...
...back, he passed in the rear of Holworthy, clapping his hands to wake up the Seniors. It was generally understood in those days that when it was too dark for the minister to read, the monitors did not mark. In the latter part of the life of old Dr. Ware, when he had become almost blind, the undergraduates sometimes took advantage of this established custom, and lay in bed when it seemed to be scarcely possible for any one to read. But the venerable man, utterly unconscious how dark it was, would repeat the Scripture from memory, and then...