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Tickets for the crew benefit Saturday will be for sale at the Co-operative the rest of the week...
...time in the pursuit of manly pastimes. But though play should make a part of every man's life, it should not make the whole of it. A third use of leisure is devotion to literary pursuits, without any result of consequence springing therefrom. Such a life gives little rest and less contentment...
...time should be considered from, so to speak, a professional standpoint. The lecturer recognized the tendency of our present mode of life toward a life of leisure combined with, and comprehended in sensible, remunerative work. It is the duty of every man who is blessed with an opportunity to rest from the sterner duties of life to so cultivate, so use his time that the highest good may result not only to himself, but also to his fellow men. The use of leisure time may be made of so much import to society that its abuse will result...
...four inches. '86 commenced heaving but soon desisted while Balch took in a fair amount of rope. The '86 anchor now had some trouble in straightening out his legs. At the end of two minutes '88 had about a foot of rope. The '88 men now took a little rest, leaning back and seeming to enjoy the prospect. '86 tried to recover an inch or two but the '88 team continued to take in rope. At the end of four minutes '86 had let out some eighteen inches. A few more powerful heaves now settled the ludicrous contest...
...meet the expenses of the reading-room. This is certainly a humiliating fact when we reflect that hardly ten per cent. of the students have as yet availed themselves of the advantages of a well equipped reading room at a very moderate membership fee, - only a dollar for the rest of the year. Many will give more than this sum in payment for half the subscription of a college paper, and expend many times this amount for other reading matter, while by joining the reading-room they might have not only the best illustrated and comic papers of England...