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...ideas of the Williams Literary Magazine on base-ball, as given yesterday on our first page, are interesting and somewhat significant. Because so this magazine says, it is a foregone conclusion that Harvard, Yale and Princeton will take the first three places in the present league, and because it is always claimed, "whether the claim be just or not," that the umpires are partial to the larger colleges, and finally because Williams herself has no possibility of getting into the league as now constituted, the plan of forming a new league to include Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth and Williams, is urged...
While the average college man was well aware of the local commotion due from the College House explosion, the earthquake from the somewhat greater, though no more historic explosion at Hell Gate recently, was also perceptible at Cambridge...
...freshman eleven goes to Exeter for its first contest of importance. We understand that the men are somewhat disheartened by the result of the Southboro game. While this is not at all surprising, we must warn the freshmen that, by going into a game with a feeling that defeat is certain, nothing else than that will ever crown their efforts. By taking a brace to-morrow at the start, - not putting it off till the score is too large large against them to be overcome, and by playing with a firm determination to win, we have every reason to expect...
...firm permanent basis. It has varied in its work from year to year. Public lectures by prominent visitors and by the instructors have been the outward signs of its life. This year, a new plan is to be inaugurated, which, if successful, will give the society a somewhat different scope. It is now designed to have most of the work at its meetings done by the members, to give each one an opportunity to look up some subject of present interest and have him give the result of his investigations to his fellow members. The meetings will not be exactly...
...some of our readers may not understand what a composite photograph is, - we would not insinuate that the able committee do not, - so a few words of explanation may not be out of order. The Scientific American has lately been publishing some articles on this interesting subject, which run somewhat as follows: - "To obtain the average photograph of a certain class, or kind of men is a easy process. If twenty or more men are to be photographed, they must be taken in the same position on one negative, giving about a second's exposure to each man; thus...