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...second day (Ladies' Day) of the H. A. A.'s Winter Meeting took place on Saturday last in the Hemenway Gymnasium, and attracted a large number of spectators, many ladies being among them. The sports opened with the first bout of the fencing, which was won by D. Leavitt, S.S., over W. O. Underwood, '84, with a score of 9 points to 8. Next came the first bout of the light-weight sparring, between G. H. Heilbron, '83, and W. H. Page, '83. Page was evidently suffering from nervousness, and appeared completely dazed all through the bout, which was awarded...
...case of two or more colleges winning an equal number of first prizes, then of these colleges that one which shall have the greatest number of second prizes shall be champion...
...second number of the Lampoon is a very good...
...retired for the night to our respective rooms, the thought occurred to me that I would attempt to find out whether the report that Tennyson is guilty of - of snoring were true or not. So I crept softly from the room, - I think it was only the second-best chamber; however, I forgive them that, - I crept, I say, down the long corridor to the door of the apartment where the great man lay. I applied my ear to the key-hole. All was still; "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse," as the poet says, - I remember...
...cannot too strongly condemn the rapidly growing custom of lauding immoderately our victorious teams, and trying to find excuses for them when defeated, instead of encouraging them more nearly to perfect themselves, in the first instance; and in the second, of striving to discover and rectify the causes of their non-success. A fault, to be corrected, must be known; and if we make a point of sparing the feelings of our athletic representatives by charitably blinding ourselves to their obvious failings, so long must we expect to see those failings remain prevalent. A team may do hard and conscientious...