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...club will meet for practice on Thursday next, leaving the Lowell R. R. depot at 2.30. All intending to go will please give their names to Mr. Austin, 22 Holworthy, before noon on Wednesday, that proper arrangements may be made for tickets. Two matches will be shot at glass balls, one at ten balls from the Bogardus trap, and one at ten balls from the rotary trap. A match will also be shot at 10 clay pigeons. If the shoot is postponed by bad weather, due notice will be given on the bulletin board on University. Fare for round trip...
...disregard of gentlemanly honor, allowed to grow and increase by the indifference of the college and of its officials, which has long passed its day, if it ever had one,-we mean the cowardly joke of sign stealing. It seems now a recognized thing, that to lead a proper and full college life, one must steal one or more signs-the greater the number the greater the glory. But stealing it is, and to the college at large we doubt if the difference between the undergraduate who "rags" and the Bill Sykes who steals anything he can lay hands...
...majority of cases it can be safely said that students spend at least two years of their college course in learning the most proper and convenient system of note-taking. Very few men have the necessary ingenuity or patience to work out for themselves in a few weeks a satisfactory method of taking down the most important points of any course, for example, in science or history. In most cases indeed no satisfactory method is arrived at even after four years of experiment. It seems somewhat strange, therefore, when we consider how much stress is laid nowadays upon...
...fact that their eleven is not absolutely sure of victory whenever it plays. The usual career of victories which a freshman eleven experiences always goes far to give it over-confidence, and some such rude change as they have now received, is necessary to inspire a proper spirit of work in both eleven and class. While there is some little ground for excuse for their defeat on account of the wretched ground at Andover, the fact nevertheless remains that the eleven was clearly out-played, doubtless owing partially to their confidence. We trust that this defeat will lead the eleven...
...great service to the cause of higher education in "promoting inter-collegiate friendship and in exhibiting the methods of instruction and government," at the various colleges. But he also recognizes the dangers to which the college journalist is exposed but considers that they can be avoided by taking proper precautions. But he pays them the highest compliment when, speaking of their moral influence, he says.-"The college paper is therefore, in respect to moral character, usually above than below the level of college sentiment, and its moral influence, therefore, is elevating...