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Thou 'It to my vows be somewhat blind...
ABOUT twenty-five bicyclists met in Holden Chapel last evening for the purpose of organizing a club. The whole number of men in college who own machines is somewhat over thirty, so there were quite a number who were not present...
...pleasant notice in the Advocate, indulges in a column and a half of abuse of the Exchange Editor of that paper. The Beacon evidently regards the Advocate's remarks as an attack against college co-education, a subject upon which the members of Boston University are naturally somewhat sensitive. But this is hardly sufficient excuse for such flagrant abuse of our brother editor. The names "little innocent" and "mucker" which he is called in different parts of the paper can seldom be applied to the same individual; "child" and "frequenter of lager-beer saloons," too, are equally inconsistent. However...
...this line of argument. As long as the Catalogue says, "None but those who need assistance are expected to apply," it will be hard to convince the average intelligence that money given in so-called scholarships is not a charity. The arguments of "T." on this point are somewhat plausible, but they seem to us unsound. We cannot see how the assistance given by the founders of scholarships to the holders of them can be called "a mutual helping toward a common end" any more than any other form of charity...
...next event - two-hand vaulting - proved popular, and five men entered, - Messrs. W. Watson, '81, F. F. Sneathen, L. S., H. N. Fowler, '80, J. L. Paine, '81, and C. H. W. Foster, '81. The vaulting was in "fence" fashion, although the proportion of fence was somewhat meagre. The bar was first placed at 5 feet 3 inches, and raised three inches each time. All the men cleared it easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none...