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...floor for questioning, and due notice of future action and the routine order as in parliament. There are many good points in this custom, for a familiarity with modes of procedure is learned in practice, and the training for off-hand speaking is excellent, as every member is put on his mettle, and while likely to be judged unsparingly, if he has ability it is quickly appreciated. Again the reproduction in the petty theatre of the rivalry of the leading parties brings the vital issues at stake in a simplified form before the members, and yet shows the real difficulties...
...pitched without," said a clergyman, having Noah's ark for his theme, and an old gase-ball player, who had been calmly slumbering, awoke with a start and yelled, "Foul !" The first bass came down from the choir and put...
...order to provide a large number of substitutes, the Yale University Boat Club will this year put in regular training two eight-oared crews. This plan, it is hoped, will also be of great aid in filling the vacancies left by those who graduate next year. Great earnestness and enthusiasm are shown at Yale in the matter of rowing, and the college announces itself as determined to win the race with Harvard next June at all events...
...general excellence prize for gymnastics three years. Mr. C. H. Kip was beaten in throwing the hammer in the spring of 1880 making a record of 58 ft., 8 in. In 1882 he wonsecond prize at the I. C. A. A. meeting in the hammer throwing and also in putting the shot. In 1883 he made the best American college record, 88 ft., 11 in., a throw of 30 ft., 3 in. more than he made in 1883. He also won first prize in putting the shot. Harvard will need very much this year men to throw the hammer...
...being tardy at the opening of the college term on Thursday. He started from his summer residence, at Mount Desert, on Monday night, intending to reach Boston by steamer. A fog closed in upon the steamer, however, and she was compelled to anchor until Tuesday noon. Finally the steamer put back in order to enable those passengers who were in a hurry to reach home to take the train and come by land.-[Gazette...