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...suitable practice. This is much very like our objection to the third resolution, only we do not make any great outcry over the loss of practice with professionals. But to us the inability to play with any amateurs otherwise than those of colleges places us at a serious disadvantage, on account of our practical isolation from athletic colleges. Too much stress cannot be laid on this objection to the third resolution...
...time was probably not far distant when Yale would stand where Harvard does now. He alluded to the new inter-collegiate athletic rules as the outcome of a desire of the Harvard faculty to protect their students from the beatings received at foot-ball from Yale, and, becoming serious, said in a national sense there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer together, but go on each endeavoring to show its own system to be the best...
...different thing between running a road through the principal streets of the two cities and simply connecting them by one line. As to the danger to real estate, a road throwing Mr. Auburn and Green streets to main street and thence over the bridge to Boston would have no serious effect upon the value of the land. And thus would be avoided that discomfort which is incurred from running a road through the crowded streets of a city. We look at the proposed road from an economical standpoint and in it we recognize not only the source of great convenience...
...remember that they should not lessen the reputation for dignity which the hall has obtained; to remember also that what may be amusing to any of them at one table may be annoying to those who happen to be sitting within hearing distance. To be sure, nothing very serious has happened as yet, but, if any license is allowed for bovish pranks and undignified conduct, there is no limit to which this abuse may not extend. It would be a pity for visitors in the gallery to witness anything unbecoming the conduct of gentlement in the strictest sense...
SPHOMORE THEMES.Theme III. will be due Feb. 14. Subjects: 1. A translation from the German. 2, 3. Subjects connected with the Civil War, cf. Hart's series of lectures. 4. On Valentines serious and comic. 5. My favorite poet and why I like him. 6. The present condition of the Civil Service. 7. What is the difference between a Republican and a Democrat...