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...foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between the contestants." The president, in omitting base ball from this list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding is put on his list. This omission of base ball may, of course, have been accidental on the president's part; but, considering the care with which the list is made out, and the prominence of the sport, such an accident seems unlikely. We shall look with interest for future developments...
More hooks are being put in the basement of the gymnasium, as the present number is inadequate to the wants of the students...
...encourages us to again broach the subject. There are always large numbers of men here who intend to enter journalism, and their work would be vastly helped, and their success made far more probable, if some attention were given to them. The chronic poverty of the college seems to put out of the question any hope of the establishment of a regular course for this purpose. But we can see no reason why some journalist of recognized ability and experience should not be asked to give the students here a series of lectures that should treat of the practical side...
...word "News" is not as many imagine, derived from the word "new," but from the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass. It was a common practice in former years (between 1595 and 1730) to put over the periodical publications of the day, the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass thus...
...cause of the falling off he ascribes to the fact that the college and its students have become a standing target for the small wits of the country. "Vassar," says the professor, "has become a thing to poke fun at. Half the new jokes about the girls are put upon Vassar students. Their doings are ridiculed, exaggerated, falsified, and the very name of Vassar is a synonyme for feminine foolishness The conse-quence is that girls are beginning to dislike to go there. I wouldn't be surprised to see the doors of the college shut in five years more...