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...unauthorized use of the names of Messrs. Wendell and Simmons by the managers of the Park Garden, in announcing certain athletic games to take place there, was an outrage for which it is hard to find proper terms. The announcement was so absurd upon the face of it that no one who knew either of the gentlemen believed it; but the action of the managers of the Park Garden is none the less a mean and contemptible one. We wish that some legal redress could be obtained in a case like this...
...favor of Harvard, and the game was unfinished, - three goals having been agreed upon as a game, - yet we may be proud of having gained even this advantage over such a celebrated club as the Union. The Lacrosse Club is proving itself worthy to take its place among our athletic organizations. Its members have trained with a fidelity which our older organizations would do well to imitate, and credit is due to Captain Sturgis for his excellent management of the team. We hope that their first success will not lead the men to relax their efforts, as the coming game...
...Williams Athenaeum holds up its hands in holy horror, as it says with bated breath: "The following conversation was overheard by one of our students at a fashionable watering-place this summer...
...That place where many Freshmen hear their doom...
...delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain a mastery of the language a long time would be required. A student might spend the four...