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...Monday Rushes," - a subject to which old Mother Advocate seems to cling with an undiminished pertinacity, - and "The Conditions of College Success." The latter is full of common sense and the key-note of the whole is struck in the concluding lines of the discussion, "The truest success lies rather in making the most of one's advantages than in attaining a flattering prominence in scholarship, societies, or athletics...
...editorials deal with the subjects of "The athletic spirit at Harvard" and "Col-Literature." With reference to the latter, the Monthly states that it "aims to represent not simply 'the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought,' but rather the strongest and soberest thought of the University, - to be, in short, a University organ...
...result of the ballotting was that the old officers, Lee, Beals and Kellogg, were re-elected by a large majority, though the tellers were a good deal troubled by some rather peculiar ballots. On the whole the meeting was a queer one and rather unsatisfactory...
...ball was Exeter's on Harvard's 15 yard line, but the Academy team could make no further ground and preferred to lose the ball on four downs rather than kick. Gray and Lake did some good work. and then Trafford punted to the centre of the field, Vail broke through and made 15 yards with the ball. Burgess then worked his backs to good effect through the right end of the rush-line and took the play well down the field towards Exeter's line. Lake made the touch down. No goal...
...auxiliary to the work of the Lawrence Scientific School. The course is open to only a very few men, and will not be open to the very men who have always been the petitioners for a course in astronomy. It is a course in the practice of astronomy rather than a study of the theory of the science. It may be regarded, however, as an entering wedge, and welcomed as making more possible the course which so many men here desire...