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...first shooting match of the Harvard Rifle Club took place on Saturday. The first prize was taken by R. Tallant, '77; the second prize by J. R. Reed, of the Law School; the third by R. A. Bullock, also of the Law School. The prizes were a silver pitcher, a silver goblet, and a silver ash-tray...
...Union College Athletic sports the 100-yard race was won in 11 seconds; the 500-yard race in 1 minute 13 1/4 seconds; and the mile-walk in 10 minutes 1 second. President Potter took great interest in the sports. He provided and presented the prizes, and spoke warmly in favor of Athletics...
...time of his death Cameron was a member of the Junior class, of which he was the President. He had passed most of the Honor examinations during his course, had taken several prizes, and had obtained the second Junior appointment. For several years past he had been a member of the choir of the Church of the Incarnation. It had been his long-expressed intention to devote himself to the ministry of the church...
...second necessary reform is to allow a man to be a candidate for the same prize but once. It is reasonable for a man who has taken a second prize one year to try for a first prize the next year. But for a man to take the first prize for two successive years, seems to us unfair...
...other hand, the greatest possible liberty is given the student, and the formation of his character is left to depend entirely upon himself. Both plans are open to censure. The first, by depriving the student of all voluntary power, does not teach him to rely upon himself. The second gives him so much liberty,- at the youthful and inexperienced age at which most students enter,-that opportunities are thrown away, and habits are thoughtlessly formed which are not discovered until too late for their correction. A mean between the two, which would give all possible liberty until some restraint...