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...candidates for the nine, at Capt. Winslow's request, remained here, and have been out on Jarvis every day excepting the rainy Saturday. On Thursday a game had been agreed upon with the Beacons, but as the latter did not put in an appearance, the nine were defrauded out of the only game that had been arranged for during the recess. The ground on Jarvis was so soft that little skill was shown, and no opinion could be formed as to our prospects in base-ball. The lacrosse team has not been practising systematically, but every day some...
...publish to-day an article on the "Amherst Senate," written by one of its members at our request. It is our purpose to publish from time to time authoritative accounts of the rise, the mode of operation, and the success of the attempts at co-operative government which have been tried at several colleges, and to compare the various systems with the plan of a conference committee which is shortly to come up before our faculty. The Amherst Senate, inasmuch as it is the oldest and best known of student governing bodies, first deserves our attention. Much has been written...
...rehearsal by Mr. Bowen of the lecture upon Harvard, which he is preparing to deliver on the public stage. The audience was composed of seniors, and of a few outsiders, especially invited for the occasion. Before the lecture, printed slips of paper were distributed among the audience, requesting them to give Mr. Bowen criticisms upon the lecture. Owing to the hearty good-feeling towards him that exists in the class, many men, doubtless, will comply with the request. Mr. Bowen was greeted with long applause when he first appeared before the audience, and many parts of his lecture met with...
...Wendell has several times made the very reasonable request that the men in Sophomore Rhetoric should be more prompt in their attendance at his lectures, especially on Thursdays, when Professor Hill's lectures are read, These lectures are very long, and require the full hour to finish them, even in a hasty manner. Students are very ready to take advantage of an instructor's tardiness, but think nothing of interrupting him in the midst of his lecture. An instructor would be justified, we think, in refusing to allow men to enter the lecture room after he had begun his talk...
...College Library with its wonted promptitude in adjusting itself to beneficial suggestions, has had slips of paper printed, serving as book marks, which request those who borrow books in great demand, to return them in one or two weeks, as the case...