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...electric light is being introduced into the University Press building on Brattle square. It is proposed to light Harvard square from the same machine...
...introduction of the electric light in a building so near to the college grounds as the University Press on Brattle square suggests the possibility of an arrangement between the owners of the machine used for lighting this building and the college authorities, whereby the light could be introduced into the college library and perhaps into the yard. It may be urged that its use for lighting the yard would bring the quiet retirement of the latter into the rude glare of publicity. The still air of delightful studies would be tainted with this poison. Perhaps this may be true...
...York Times indulges in some very cheap wit at the expense of those students who oppose the new athletic regulations. Its gibes do not at all affect the real argument, however. Indeed it seems impossible for the outside press, with rare exceptions, ever to fairly apprehend the true state of any matter of college administration or of student interest. "Let them remember," cries the Times to the students, "that as it is not every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced...
...said that for heavy men-say 175 lbs.,-the four-mile course may be less injurious than a quick stroke three miles, but for the average man of 150 lbs. the quick stroke and shorter race would be the better. In fact, this has been acknowledged by the college press when they advocate the class competitions of two miles. By the way, practically everything adopted has been favored by the students in their papers. Regarding the men engaging professional trainer outside of those authorized by the college, it may be said that if the athletic committee discovered the fact...
...growth of real interest in the administration of the affairs of the society. This interest the board of directors will do well to stimulate still further by giving publicity to their own meetings and discussions, and by inviting among the members of the society and the college press the freest debate on any matters of general interest...