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...must apply their minds under pressure to new matter at short notice and for this you are trained, in meeting your tasks day by day. It would doubtless be much pleasanter to both students and instructors, were it differently arranged. The American college is a social institution. It is right that it should be so. It gives a charm and usefulness. You make here a new home, new friends, new social and personal life and lay foundations for friendships in after life ; friendships which if you ask old graduates they will tell you are the best they have ever formed...
...delivery that he did not know when to quit, and after the Harvard men had noticed that the ball always turned about a foot outward after leaving the pitcher's hand, they made their calculations and hammered at it accordingly. The game, up to the fifth inning, was right in the hands of Princeton's catcher, who captured the men one after another as they struck out, but when Harvard began to bat, the prospects changed at once, and Princeton lost by three clear runs. Mann had only one curve, and he did not even vary it by straight balls...
...safety touchdown in the first three-quarters. The score by points count up 20 to 0 in favor of Andover. This defeat seems to dispirit the freshmen rather than to urge them to renewed effort. It is to be hoped that they will take this rebuke in the right light and go to work determined to wipe out the defeat in a victory over Yale. The team is as good as it was a day or two ago and no one need feel discouraged or withold their support from the eleven just because they have persisted in over-rating...
...have a right to expect much advantage from their street training this year, and they must not fail to have it count in the score. Besides Cabot's effective play, Bonsal and Codman played brilliantly and steadily for Harvard, while Field did very good work for the visitors. Gilman was temporarily disabled at the beginning of the second half, and his place was taken by Crane. Several of the Williams players were forced to leave the field, but their injuries were only slight. The total number of points...
...opening of the library in the morning, or after its close in the afternoon? Notices are carefully placed on the tables, stating that loud talking, or any practice disturbing to readers is forbidden. But the object of these notices must remain unaccomplished as long as the authorities reserve the right to make as much noise as they please in changing the position of the books, taking away old ones and bringing new. This sort of thing went on for upwards of half an hour one day last week, and a large part of the table in the alcove was covered...