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...instant, and, in reply to the oft-advanced argument that the mind is not in an active state during the evening, it may certainly be said that if the faculties are sufficiently alert to be occupied in severe study for four or five hours they could certainly bear the strain of recitation for one-half of the time. While the project may seem a little visionary now, it will surely be adopted at some time in the near future, for it has many advantages...
...though devoid of any brilliant features, was nevertheless characterized by steady playing which is sure to win in the long run. Bean's pitching cannot be taken as a sample of what he is able to do against a college nine, as he has been suffering lately from a strain received while practising. Tilden's umpiring was very poor throughout the game and Brown was benefitted in almost every instance by his bad judgment, the Boston papers to the contrary notwithstanding. Coolidge, Olmsted and Greene led the batting, and Lovering, Nichols and Chase did the best fielding. A very noticeable...
...into the boat, they pushed on. As it afterward proved, the neglect to put on the washboards proved fatal. When nearly 150 yards from the Union boat-house, the forward part of the boat was so full of water that something had to be done to relieve the heavy strain. Perceiving, with the true instinct of heroes, the imminent danger to the boat and their companions, Messrs. Keith and Bunney, Horatius-like, leapt into the foaming flood and swam to the nearest land, which proved to be the Charles river embankment, some 50 feet distant. The remainder of the crew...
...mile course in boat-races. All physicians, who have given the subject any thought or attention, unanimously agree that a race of four miles is but a needless test of a man's endurance, and that no man can row that distance, spurred on by ambition and excitement and straining every muscle at each stroke, without some serious injury, which is sure to make itself apparent sooner or later. Such a strain on both nerves and muscles can not be without effect, as has been shown in many cases, during or immediately after the race. It is a well known...
This is not the first time that the existence of Memorial has hung by a thread which the slightest strain would easily break. It is now time, once for all, to determine the needs of its future and permanent welfare. We must look the facts squarely in the face and act according to the conclusions legitimately obtained from them. We have tried to conduct the hall as a student affair, and have failed; it is unpleasant to say "failed," but it is for all that the truth. It is not our purpose, nor is it necessary, to show...