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...Harvard toward the ideal university, and what makes this step more unendurable is its absolute uselessness. We have been yielding gradually to the views of the faculty on this point, and have tacitly been granting the necessity of some regulation of athletics. But, to state the question in plain terms, what evidences have we seen of this necessity? What has been done by the athletes of our college in the past few years that necessitates some regulation by a kind faculty? We have been playing a rather rougher game of football than in the past. True...
...with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look after the ball, and while this search is going on the party who struck it with the stick runs incessantly from post to post, marking one for each run. It is plain, then, that it is to the advantages of the party who strikes the ball to make it jump very far. Sometimes it tumbles into a thicket, and the players take hours before they can get hold of it; and all this time the player does not cease running from post to post...
Cornell University gets a particularly fine Egyptian mummy from Mr. Pomeroy, American consul general at Cairo. It is something over 3500 years old, and the covering of pasteboard bears a host of figures and inscriptions which are yet plain...
...Lost-A plain stylographic pen, on the way from North Avenue to University Hall, on Thursday afternoon. Please return to C. R. Saunders, 50 North Avenue...
...Lost-A plain stylographic pen, on the way from North A venue to Unversity Hall, on Thursday afternoon. Please return to C. R. Saunders, 50 North Avenue...