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...fact earned was this: that the room in question was not for the use of the students at large, but only for the pupils of the aforesaid instructors. As these men pay nothing to the college for the use of the room, exactly where they get their exclusive right to it is not known. While we dislike to be continually complaining of the mismanagement which is infallibly shown in some quarters, we think it is time to draw the line. Again and again has that sparring room been the scene of boxing exhibitions between outsiders; outsiders whose antecedents it might...
...There are good men in the class, and they need only the proper encouragement to go on the field. With a firm determination to success the freshmen can afford to get "rattled" and play a "wretched game," for there will ensue that "decided brace" which always comes at the right moment. So let the freshmen take heart and feel that steady work will soon put them in as good condition for work as their predecessors...
Yale freshmen have no right to sit on the Chapel street fence except as a reward for beating the Harvard freshmen in an athletic contest. It is a pleasant fence, commanding an unhindered view of one of the fairest and most delightfully frequented thoroughfares in New Haven, and offers to the members of the higher classes many of the advantages of a well-situated club house. The freshmen, the other day, after beating the sophomores by four to three at a game of base-ball, raided this fence and sat upon it, heedless of the indefensible unusualness...
...conceit out of him. Some men require the whole four years for the renovating process; and some men even require more. But the truth is that a large number of men have at graduation only just subjected themselves sufficiently to be able to study in the right spirit, in the realization of their own ignorance. This humbling men is a great benefit of a college course. Another benefit is that it teaches men how to study properly. It is strange to some, perhaps, for anyone to say that many students on entering college do not know how to study properly...
...full assortment of square and up-right pianos is for sale or rent to students on reasonable terms, at No. 11 Brattle Street...