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After a ten minutes' rest the second half of the game began, the Canadians having the kick-off this time. This half of the game was characterized by some magnificent playing on the part of the Canadians. The beautiful runs of Perram and Taylor, and the kicks of Wilmot and Scriver, were duly appreciated by the spectators. Nor were the Harvards lax in their endeavors to increase their score, though their play as a whole was not so brilliant as in the first half of the game. Herrick made a fine diagonal run, gaining half the length of the field...
...oratorical celebrations of the college and on Class Day they are almost universally worn by the class holding the celebration, and by the orators always. Also in other college affairs the men who have parts, and the marshals, committee-men, etc., are obliged to wear them, but the rest of the students follow their own inclinations in the matter. On Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being...
...drive a car into Boston by saying, "It will be just the jolliest lark," it is our good fortune to have escaped meeting him. The book, as a whole, may possibly be better than the extracts indicate, and it will certainly be worth reading from curiosity. As for the rest, we are strongly inclined to think that the niche in the temple of Fame reserved for the man who treats this subject in a masterly style is still unoccupied...
...hundred and fifteen new students. Six are females, twenty-three are from other colleges and universities, fifty-three enter the scientific course, seventeen the course in literature, twenty-two the course in arts, eighteen in engineering, and the rest are distributed among the minor courses or are optional students...
...expect men to be very rigid in their self-discipline when it makes no apparent difference to others whether or no they are strict with themselves. We have this year a captain who is fully alive to the responsibility of his position. It is for the rest of us now to make up our minds whether we will support him in his efforts to produce a winning crew, or whether we will betake ourselves to our cigarettes and let matters at the boat-house slide along as they can. Whichever course we choose, we should make known our decision...