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...science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees it, his ship will fail of a successful voyage all the same. It is for this reason that the names most prominent on the honor list during the college course are so seldom heard of after graduation. The man who will succeed and whose training will do the greatest good to himself and to others is the man who, while not neglectful of his studies, adds to this an appreciation of the practical experience which the college life is so ready to bestow...
...game was well played and exciting. The battery work for Harvard was excellent; Nichols pitched a most effective game, and was splendidly supported by Allen. Beaman's play at third was brilliant. Nichols score of two home runs and a three-bagger has seldom been equalled on Holmes, and Allen and Tilden also did good work with the bat. For the visitors, Hale led in both batting and fielding...
...knowledge of the subject. As all the men examined on a certain day in a certain branch of study are given printed papers bearing the same questions it would seem the most natural way for the men to get possession of the paper before the examination. This, unfortunately, is seldom if ever practicable. The printing is watched with the most jealous care, and as soon as the papers come from the press they are safely placed under lock and key, where the wicked student has no hope of effecting an entrance. Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper...
...feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate and had some meaning. In the reading of the lines, the ear was very seldom shocked by that false emphasis which is the bane of our stage-that ignoring of substantives and verbs, and throwing the main stress of the voice upon the minor parts of speech, Upon the whole, the reading was less constantly declamatory than we had expected and feared. Now and then...
...seldom that an audience of 4,000 is attracted by the announcement of an inter-collegiate game, yet that is the number that passed through the gates of the Yale Athletic Grounds last Saturday. The spacious new grandstand was densely packed with specta tors, Yale students for the most part, while crowds took up their position along the ropes stretching toward first and third bases: In the rear of the spectators some two score of drags, barouches, and dog-carts took their positions, laden with the lady supporters of the Blue and their escorts. Soon after three o'clock...