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...reason why it should be considered probable. There is of course the chance that as the Harvard faculty grows narrower and more stringent in its ideas, the corporation will become more liberal and broad-minded,-that while the one is engaged in hedging athletics round with impossible restrictions, the other may be drifting towards a progressive policy in chapel regulations...
Harvard, Yale and Columbia have had a good laugh all round at the impudence and deluded vanity, as they regard it, of these little Pennsylvania fellows who presumed to challenge them so boastfully. It was funny-funny enough to convulse more sober people even than the college crews are composed of. But now that the laugh is over, is it not about time for Harvard, Yale and Columbia to beat Pennsylvania and so establish their right to laugh? It might turn out to be the old story of the jovial Pat who was glad he had his laugh before...
...formed a young ladies' fire company. They wear a pretty uniform, with feathers in their hats and flowing sashes of pink ribbon. They have provided themselves with neatly japanned water pots instead of a fire engine, and they have resolved when a fire breaks out to form a circle round about it, and to pour water on it from their watering pots while singing that beautiful song, "Water, bright water, for me, but gin for the masculine fire ladies:" They have signed a pledge never to go up a step ladder in public, no matter how confident...
...book home, as it were, and make it part of himself. He never 'travels over the mind' of a great author till he becomes as familiar with its beauties and its nooks, its heights, its levels, and its denths, as a Cumberland shepherd with the mountains and valleys round about his home. He never looks upon his books as his friends. It is to his head, and not to his heart, that he wishes to take them; and he only cares to keep them there till they have served their purpose at the next examination. How different...
...Baxter, '83, was one of the contestants in the heavyweight sparring. His opponent was Doherty, of Boston. The fighting was very close. Baxter, with his lame right hand, did some game work. The judges disagreed and a fourth round was fought. After it the decision was in favor of Doherty. This announcement caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of those present, who called loudly for Baxter. The cause given for the decision was that Baxter did not lead. On the other hand it may be said that whenever he approached his man the latter withdrew from the imaginary ring, choosing...