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...Beside the usual rooms of a club house it contains a gymnasium hall, and other rooms devoted to athletic exercises. The gymnasium hall occupies the whole of what would ordinarily be two stories at the top of the building. Its size may be approximated in the mind of the reader, by learning that the track which is in a balcony like the one in the Hemenway gymnasium, is 21 laps, while the Harvard track measures 17 to the mile. The apparatus for this new gymnasium was prepared under the supervision of Dr. Sargent, and embraces all the essential machines...
Typographical errors sometimes appear in the columns of the CRIMSON, but, half-column article in Saturday's Record surpasses, in poor proofreading, anything that has appeared in college journalism for some time. The article in question contained eighteen errors. If the proof reader on our Boston E. C. continues in this course, he will break the Record...
...Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras, and Pope's trans. of Homer, and Essay on Man. He was particularly fond of Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote. In addition to the Latin classics he studies with interest...
...turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore, respectfully suggest that on cloudy mornings the gloomy chapel be illuminated by a stray candle here and there. The reader may now expect some words about electric light in the library. But, for today we have finished our suggestions to the powers above us, whether faculty or janitor...
...will be admitted. The observatory is out of our reach, but almost opposite are the Botanic Gardens. This we may enter, and we will probably find even the hot houses open. The lover of botany will have his hands full here. I can stop for no description. Let the reader visit the gardens himself, and he will be well repaid...