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Professor Roebrig of Cornell, has adopted the recent Sanscrit Reader by Professor Lanman, as the text book for his Sanscrit class...
...these societies is the playing of the game of cricket-match, an active, running, driving, jumping game, which only can be played by a person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player, close to one of the posts, throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which...
...little instruction or criticism from his professors that was of value to him. His favorite study was Greek, and his translations of the classical authors were neat and happy. In mathematics he made no headway, and he did not succeed very well in philosophy. He was a great reader, and studied very much outside of the prescribed course. Even on entering college he was well read. His special favorites were the old English poets and dramatists,-Montaigne and Shakspere. He was especially devoted to Shakspere, and became very familiar with that poet's works. In his sophomore year...
...question of professional training for college nines has been so of ten discussed and argued to no purpose that it is hardly necessary to go over the same old ground again, but one or two points may perhaps be dwelt on without taxing too much the patience of the reader already exhausted on this topic. The playing of college men with professional teams, although excellent practice, as it teaches them to be cool, to eatch surely and to use their heads, is not absolutely necessary to produce a fine playing nine. Now throwing and catching the ball and good field...
...complaint and very much has been said on the subject; but much remains unsaid. This complaint is the abominable state of various walks in the yard. People have urged that constant writing in the college papers does no good and only bores the reader. This is not always so. It sets men to thinking and talking about the subject, and often leads to important results. Several years ago the yard was without any brick sidewalks and all the paths were in a poorer condition. The Crimson, then a fortnightly, kept constantly bringing the attention of the authorities and students...