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Finally, one can hardly engage for a certain length of time, in a particular kind of work without becoming identified with it, and the logical result of the system will show itself at some future day. Instead of builders in literature, we shall have a class of men whose only ability lies in tearing down, instead of our being able to appreciate an artistic piece of work as a whole, our knowledge must come from a view of it lying dismembered before us like the wreck of some noble ship cast upon a barren shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRITICISM. | 11/9/1885 | See Source »

...shooting men of the college may be well satisfied with the weather which has prevailed during the past month. Yesterday afternoon was extremely favorable for high scoring, and, despite the absence of some of the club's best shots, the records show that good shooting was no rarity. The opening of the new series of matches called out a fairly large field of entries, and the score sheets showed close competition in the various events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clay Bird Shooting. | 11/6/1885 | See Source »

...pitiful spectacle of a freshman eleven practically forced to disband because a few of the men on the team are laid up. Eighty-six had luck nearly as bad as eighty-nine has had, in her freshman year; but she did not give up. Will not eighty-nine also show that she has some spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1885 | See Source »

...further corners of the room, it seems as if during the whole lecture, every student in the room considered it necessary that he should move his feet at least twenty times. There are nearly two hundred men in the course, and a little computation will show that this movement occasions no little confusion. Let all the members of Political Economy IV, therefore, be very studious to plant their feet once for all, that the students in the corners of the room may catch at least a portion of the lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/5/1885 | See Source »

...last June, and cheering to the echo the men who had sent the crimson to the front. Have the four months that have since passed driven from our minds all recollections of that day? We believe that the college will not follow the example of the proverbial republic and show itself "ungrateful." The dinner to be given the crew this week ought to be, and must be, a success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/2/1885 | See Source »