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...Harvard men can neither be convinced of the many advantages accruing from playing the first game here, nor be sufficiently moved by appeals to their aesthetic natures to spare one of our customs, it is but one more reason why our freshmen should put forth their best efforts to win. In view of the importance of that game to the Yale freshmen, it is to be hoped that it may be played here. If, however, such an arrangement cannot be made, brace, '87, and show your rivals on their own grounds that if the custom of playing the game here...
...lectures, and will be of special importance as an introductory course for those men who wish to make a thorough study of the science. The new course, if given, will undoubtedly be a very useful and popular one. We hope that the committee on electives will decide to put the course in the elective pamphlet for next year. Professor H. B. Hill will probably conduct the course...
Ball nines are being talked of by several of the tables at Memorial. Club tables outside of the hall will also put forward scrub nines as the evenings grow longer...
...speaker next dwelt on the severity of the tests to which men professedly devoted to total abstinence are sometimes put. Theses trials must be looked for by those who depart from the ordinary tenets of the age. As Emerson expressed it, "There has never yet been found an easy way to perform heroic conduct." The lecturer recommended Summer's advice to Stanton, "stick...
...early history of this manufacture. In 1787 the first cotton mill was started in Beverly. At that time to separate the lint from the seeds was the hardest work. This difficulty was removed by the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. About 1810 power looms were put into general use. The speaker then continued to briefly trace the history of the industry down to the present time. During the war of the Rebellion the status of the cotton manufacture was upset. The raw material increased from 10 1-2 cents in 1861 to $1.90, and then dropped to about...