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...overseers were called in on special occasions to witness the proceedings. This form of punishment degenerated into ear-boxing in 1754, and then to a tariff of college sins, when profane swearing was valued at 2s. 6d.; sending for liquor, 6d.; and fetching the same 1s. 6d. The marking system was introduced...
...Princeton senior, in an able article published in the initial number of The Student and Statesman, assume a false premise, viz., that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should have a hearing. The inter-collegiate contest is the main point of attack. The opponents of the system assert that college sports and the benefits arising therefrom are confined to a very few - that the "nine," the "eleven," and the "four" or the "eight" form a small proportion...
Class games and the rivalry between individuals is scarcely sufficient to keep men at regular work when they can be out of doors; and they are totally inadequate to induce men to go into a careful system of winter training. "Winte training" means an hour's moderate work in the gymnasium daily. The present interest in class contests, small as it is, is chiefly owing to the training they give to men who are possible candidates for the 'Varsity teams or crews. Hence the interest in them would dwindle to almost nothing, were the inter-collegiate contests abolished or materially...
...various teams through the winter to imagine that the nine, the crew and the contestants at the inter-collegiate athletic games are the only men who receive benefit from college sports, and it is a subject for congratulation that a college undergraduate who understands the inside workings of the system knows how to express himself in clear and forcible English, has come forward to call attention to the falsity of this opinion...
...plate" system of photographing, which has been recently adopted at Pach's studio, requires a sitting of only two or three seconds, so that the groups are now taken quicker and with more comfort to the sitter than were the single photographs...