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...class games now being played at Harvard will give the freshmen excellent practice. They can stand a great deal of this sort of work, as they have plenty to learn before they will be fit to face Yale '90. - Boston Herald...
...Hadley's) has been criticised as too high, by some as too low. The question arises how to account for the other $30,000, how much of it is legitimate and how much is true. If this sum comes out of earnings it may be regarded as a sort of back interest...
...piled one on top of another, to produce unreal and impossible difficulty; and the child, having been furnished with such an arithmetical monstrosity, is set to multiplying or dividing it by another "compound and complex fraction" as unreal and ridiculous as itself. All this sort of thing in the teaching of young children is careless and mischievous...
...near-sightedness? If you mean by "prudence" near-sightedness, then we do not claim for it the meaning of far-sightedness, nor indeed do we desire to have anything to do with it. But I am convinced that not even political economy is content to accept prudence of this sort as an attribute. Again, to cap the climax, "There are no two characters more unlike than the heroic man and the prudent man." Do you hear this, students of political economy? You are not Christians. There are no germs of heroism in your souls. Do you hear this, earnest Christians...
...consolidated base-ball nine has been formed at Yale College. A sort of joint stock company has been organized, and 200 shares of stock at $5 a share have been subscribed for. W. M. Vinton of the junior class, who is a professional base-ball player and can not play with the university team on that account, will be the captain and pitcher. Edward Parsons, '88, will manage the nine. The chief idea informing the new team is to give the regular college team practice, but games will be arranged with several other leading clubs. - N. Y. Times...