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...Boating is booming. In other words boating has taken a fresh start under the new management, and while the progress has been slow and the innovation has been made carefully, yet the progress is substantial and the changes are practical. The new constitution lays stress upon the formation of a university crew and it is the intention of the association to carry this article into effect. Financial arrangements are being perfected and already give assurance of success. It is certainly commendable to place this branch of our athletics on a firm footing, and when our alumni see that...
...gigantic prescriptions, in which a liberal quantity of honey and syrup were suggested as medicine for the Telegraph and Argus, and a wholesale dose of arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts, and observed a respectful silence during the progress of the play. When the curtain was going up, order was called by a rap or two with a gigantic thigh bone welded by the leader of the party...
Common people relish definiteness in a constitution, and the more rigid it is the better it is suited to the democratic mind, and by being rigid avoids two democratic dangers, disrespect for a minority and for fixed rules. Is there a progress from rigidity to flexibility ? The time comes in a democracy when the people are completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better...
Yale men are being treated to lectures almost every day. Several courses are in progress, under the direction of the college professors...
...printed since the dark ages. This language was reported on good authority to be a close adaptation of that famous tongue which gave birth to the words (since adopted as the favorite motto of the athletic committee) "Veni, vidi, vici." But, alas ! strange inconsistencies have crept in with the progress of civilization, until we doubt if even Caesar himself would take much pleasure in perusing the contents of the catalogue of the present...