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Apropos Willard's beautiful home run during the last Amherst game, the Amherst Student remarks: "When Harvard's first-base man hereafter comes to the bat, 'over the fence is out' should be the rule...
...selections, the evils resulting from an inconsistent combination will grow less and less. A study of the records of the college for the last few years will convince any candid reader that this thoughtless union of irrationally connected subjects is fast becoming a very unimportant exception to the general rule...
...complaints are again heard against the "wiles of the crafty faculty" which thus deprive the poor student of an hour in which he hopes by a stupendous exertion to review the work of months. We think that these complaints are unjust, and that the authors of the new rule have shown their real regard for the student's interest by thus depriving them of that time in which many men against their better judgment, unfit themselves by hard study for the three hours' work which is to follow. An examination in Philosophy or Political Economy, for example, requires that...
...most unfair contest of the whole afternoon. Ludington of Yale, and Safford of Columbia, and Bradley, '86 were the contestants. The starter gave the word to get ready, and the first two started without waiting for the pistol. Bradley requested that they be set back according to rule, but the starter without heeding him fired his pistol, and Bradley had to follow the other two, by that time already half way to the first hurdle, or get left entirely. He ran so much better than they that he cleared the last hurdle almost at the same time with them...
...that all lists must be presented by Thursday, to give time for scrutiny and, if necessary, for correction of the lists. As ample notice is given of this fact, the instructor earnestly requests that no one may ask for an exception in his own case to this reasonable rule...