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...cinder track on Holmes or Jarvis, we hope to see larger fields of starters and equally fast and close races. The time made in all the events proves that as athletes we are, with proper training, inferior to none. A little self-denial, more and harder exercise, and regular, quiet living, comprise the essentials to high condition. It would seem that men who have proved their ability to run well without much training ought to be willing, on another occasion, to forego for a few weeks their personal pleasures in order to secure for themselves and the University a record...
SMITH is one of those quiet fellows who always agree with you, never putting forward any decided views of their own, and whom for that reason you think remarkably sensible. I always supposed him to be rather conservative in his views; but I discovered my mistake the other day. It happened thus...
...Certainly," said Smith in his quiet way, "I'll write them, and bring them round some time in the course of the evening...
...persons, and protest against the fiends of the north entry of Matthews, who prevent my neighbors and myself from doing necessary work. I had supposed, it seems fallaciously, that we were all bound by certain feelings of consideration for each other, and that the man who will want quiet to-morrow would feel it his duty, or let us say policy, to observe the rule we call Golden...
...question of opening our Library Sunday is to be distinguished from the broad question of opening city libraries on that day. The working-man may, and doubtless does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...