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Several changes have been made this year in the Chemical Laboratory, and as they do not seem to be generally understood, it may be well to state what the changes...
...affairs, and if they themselves are successful in getting or keeping hold of desirable courts, why should there be a general ousting in favor of the discontented few? Everyone knows that the number of players is far too great for the number of courts, and yet it does not seem fair that for that unfortunate reason so many should be wholly excluded from the sport. The present system of "scrambling" for courts or of one man reserving for private use the best court to be found, is unjust to the extreme and we hope that another year of dissatisfaction will...
...Yale seems determined to stick by her new stroke this year. Yale men in general seem to favor it, the News advocates it, and the Record says : "It was not their stroke or their boat that beat the Yale crew, but a misfortune which could not have been foreseen or averted. All that we can wish for is the same stroke and the same crew next June...
...base on balls and a wild throw lost a game which had been won on its merits. The result of this game is but another illustration of the prevailing weakness of college players. They can generally pick up balls and make brilliant stops and catches, but they do not seem to know the little points of the game, but go to pieces at the first critical point. However, to lose a game by such an accident as the one of yesterday is certainly an instance of hard luck...
This afternoon the sophomores give the fence to the freshmen, and silly as the custom may at first seem, it is, nevertheless, a most interesting one. The sophomore orator in a supposed humorous speech, gives away that for which "Providence has shaped our ends," as one said not long ago, and the freshman orator then accepts in behalf of his class, and at once proceeds to give as good as he receives if he is able...