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...Most of the time when the men are not out rowing, they spend in lounging about on the piazza, reading or talking. Just beside the quarters is a large open field, where the crew occasionally have a little game of ball, but from all appearances their skill does not seem to lie at all in this direction...
...that Yale will be enabled hereafter to enjoy all the advantages in athletic training which we have been more fortunately allowed. We have long heard complaints from New Haven of the disadvantages which Yale athletes are forced to overcome in their work. We are pleased that at last circumstances seem to promise an equality of athletic privileges to both Harvard and Yale...
Several men in college have made complaints in regard to the English literature courses in college. They say that they are altogether too superficial. They seem to lose sight of the aim of these courses. It is not intended in studying the history of English literature by centuries, to give a thorough study of the different writers. As has been several times expressed at the lectures, the idea of the courses is to give men a knowledge of who the writers are, what period and school they belong to, and what their general work has been. With this foundation laid...
...Spirit of the Times publishes a letter from Dr. Swain of the University of Michigan, in which a full account of Bonine's records for 50, 80, and 110 yards is given. They seem well authenticated, but there was an inequality in the track of 3 feet each...
...connected with the college, joining in the endless promenade around the yard; and the coarse laughter of these men and their female companions was so out of harmony with the time and place as to destroy half the illusion, and make the whole affair seem like one huge base-ball celebration open to the whole of Cambridge and Boston. We speak very plainly about this; it is an unpleasant subject to handle, but it must be firmly and forcibly demonstrated to the outside world that their uninvited presence is not desired at the greatest social event of the college year...