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...forego half of the long vacation, and take advantage of the courses in science offered this summer, varying the monotony of his life (if such it be) by an occasional trip in a yacht to Minot's Light or Nix's Mate, or by a visit to City Point; or, again, by reading some stirring novel like Guerrazzi's "Beatrice Cenci," or else some of the standard authors or the old dramatists and poets...
...fifty per cent of the maximum mark on the work of each half-year, in each study. It is a rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused much dissatisfaction to the best, as well as to the worst, of scholars. To point out, in detail, its evil effects, would take more space than we can give in this column. We only wish to say here, that we have made careful inquiries concerning the intended working of the law; that we have been told by one of the authorities that...
...next two innings neither nine added anything to their score, but in the fifth Sawyer, after hitting safe, scored the only earned run of the game, coming in on a "two bases" of Holmes's. Score 3 to 1 in favor of Harvard. From this point until the eighth inning, the score was unchanged, the play of both nines being marked by sharp fielding and weak batting. In the eighth inning Joseph retired on a fly to pitcher. Parks struck an easy grounder to Sawyer, who, after fumbling it, failed to throw it to first in time. Leonard batted...
...those that go out for wool and come home shorn; the pitcher that goes too often to the home base has his nose broken at last; every tub should stand upon its own bottom, - all of which are exceedingly good a priori arguments and bear directly on the point...
...statement be true, the Lampoon will not have lived in vain. If by these words we are brought to a realizing sense of our condition, our "comic college journal" will deserve all the good things that have been said of it, and may rest its reputation on this one point...