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From time to time during the past half dozen years the introduction of the game of cricket into our colleges has been under discussion. At first the subject was looked upon as a problem, but there stood ready in several of our largest universities those who proposed to crack the nut. In Philadelphia the leading clubs took the matter in hand and did much to encourage the proposition. At last, about three years ago, the Intercollegiate Cricket Association was organized, and the initial meeting, which was held in New York, was attended by representatives from Harvard, Trinity of Hartford, Princeton...
...devolve upon the members to determine the future policy of the society by the election of a president and board of directors to succeed the present officers. The first year of the society - necessarily a tentative and experimental year - has, we think, been highly successful, and has solved the problem of the society's future existence. The extent of the benefits that have been conferred and of the work that has been done by the society, of course cannot be fully and accurately known until the reports of the president, treasurer and superintendent are presented at the approaching annual meeting...
...presented in the strongest light. If these arguments are conclusive, an expression of opinion to that effect on the part of college students themselves, who are, of course, the persons most interested in the matter. will, without doubt, have considerable influence in bringing about a proper solution of the problem. If, on the other hand, as we believe, the arguments are weak and one-sided, there is no more appropriate place to expose their vulnerable points than at such a meeting as that of tonight, at which men who can speak from experience will be present and will give their...
...stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer, "Who is he and whence among men; who were his parents and where is his goodly dwelling?" But I have never learned the answers to these questions. The problem of the man with the iron mask counts as nothing with me; here is a secret twice as strange and impenetrable. Some noble object must be his; why does he linger among us - among us and yet not of us? Is he a Polish exile; or was his home once...
...next six months. As it is well known that weak men at the beginning make greater relative development under the same condition than strong men, these prizes offer a special inducement to the men who most need the training they call for, and hence admirably solve the problem. They are not merely open as are the prizes at the athletic games, to the few strong men of the college, but to everybody - the pale, consumptive-looking senior and the diminutive fresh. - [Univ...