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...allowed at Memorial it would give that social attraction, that home-like, comfortable air to the hall that few men would resist. Instead of being a half-deserted, lonesome place, which makes a man feel "blue" the instant he enters it, it would become a true commons, where would resort the most of the men in college, to pass what would become the pleasantest hour of the day. I trust that you will give this communication a place in your columns, although I confess that it may seem very much of an innovation which I advocate. Yours...
...following article on amateur boxing from the N. Y. Sportsman will be of interest : The youth who can use his hands well will rarely resort to a knife or a pistol, as the fist is much quicker than any concealed weapon, and, like the Irishman's shillelagh, never misses fire. The simple fact that boxing teaches self-reliance to a boy ought to be recommendation enough to paterfamilias, who should encourage his son to become proficient in the art of "hit, stop and get away." A broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust...
Moriarty's, the great resort of the Yale boys, had a narrow escape during the recent conflagration in New Haven...
...more general and well authenticated belief was, that President Garfield had offered him the position as minister to one of the courts of Europe. The death of the President overthrew this little plan, and the belief is that he accepted the presidency of the Agricultural College as a last resort, explaining his preference to that position to the presidency of Williams on the ground that this is a reform school, far too ignoble...
...wonder. While these things are so, while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...