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...RUMOR is abroad that a second meeting of the Senior class may be called some time in the coming week. If such a meeting is held, it is commonly supposed that the class will have to adopt one of the alternatives, - either to merely fill the vacancies which have been made by resignations, or to annul the action of the last meeting in toto, and proceed to a new election...
...Second Half. - Yale kicked off, and for some time Harvard was hard pressed. At last Holden got a touch-down. The trial at goal by Grant was lost, but Holden soon sent the ball over by a ground-kick. The three quarters of an hour were now nearly ended, but another goal was obtained by Grant, on a touch-down of Tebbets, before time was called. The score then stood: Harvard, 3 goals, 2 touch-downs; Yale, 0 goals, 0 touch-downs. The Harvard eleven were: Forwards, Davis, Tebbets, Bacon, Holden, Hooper, Nickerson; half-backs, Blanchard, Jordan (captain), Grant; backs...
...suggested, is a very good example of what I mean. You find your friends interested in something that bores you. It would be unwise to tell them that they are fools, for, in the first place, at their period of life that is a foregone conclusion, and in the second place, two can play at that game. Neither would it be wise to retire to your own room in disgust, for man is a gregarious mammal, and you are a man. Nor yet ought you to look as gloomy as a funeral in the midst of a crowd of amused...
...that they misjudged those whom they regarded as their opponents, and would be glad if the work were undone. Those who believe in the best man for every office, without regard to anything else, are now willing to leave the matter to be decided by the sober second thoughts of the class. A majority of its members are apparently anxious to see the offices vacated, and then refilled in a meeting distinguished by the absence of " put-up-jobs" and all sorts of wire-pulling. One of two things will certainly be done, - either a new election, perfectly open...
...that this man has given so many hours to this subject while another has devoted to the same thing either half the time or twice the time. The question I want to ask is whether it follows as a logical conclusion that in the former case the second man has learned but half as much as the first, and, in the other case, twice as much...