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...candidates for the Andover baseball team are already hard at work. About sixty in all are in training; eighteen for the out field, twenty-two for first and second bases, seven for third base, and fourteen for the batteries. They seem to be heavier and older and older than last year's candidates. The captain seemed especially pleased with the work of several of the men who are trying for the pitcher's box, and Andover expects to be able to send a very strong team to Exeter in the spring...
Some time ago there appeared a communication in your columns in regard to souvenirs to be given to the members of the football team. Since that time no action has been taken in regard to the matter. It would certainly seem as if some sort of remembrance should be given to the eleven. For those graduating, especially,- though they will need no reminder of the victory,- a token from the college that their work was appreciated would be extremely gratifying...
...Edward Abbott, D. D., rector of Saint James' Church, North Cambridge, addressed the Saint Paul's Society last evening. He said that people never seem to realize how easily they might obtain good advice when they have knotty questions to decide in business life or in study. They are apt, if the difficulty is very great, either to give it up entirely or else to make a guess at the solution and usually guess wrongly. People don't as a rule understand that there is One above earthly perplexities who is, nevertheless, able to end perplexity as no one else...
...possibly seem inopportune, on an occasion so solemn as the last day before the mid-year examinations, to speak of any sort of festivities, but is it not time for the two upper classes to make arrangements for their annual dinners? The juniors last year held their annual dinner on February 18, as soon as the mid-years were over. The class of '90 held their junior dinner on February 19, 1889. In each case only about a hundred men were present. As the junior dinner affords the first opportunity for a social meeting of the whole class...
However much the smaller colleges may hesitate to follow Harvard in some of the liberal reforms, they seem unanimous in their desire to extend the elective system. The catalogue of Brown University for the current year, which has just been published, shows a largely increased list of electives. Instruction is now given in the Semitic languages and in Oriental history, in advanced Latin for lower courses, and in Zoology, Geology, and Botany. A course in classical Archaeology is also for the first time given to the senior class, and other students who desire to attend. German, which was once...