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Dost thou not, Pompey, take it much amiss...
...subtracted for the two voyages, thus leaving nine weeks to be spent ashore. If one has $250 in all, and pays $130 for his steamer tickets, that will leave $1.90 a day, which will be enough to live on even in London. Of course it is necessary to take lodgings in some quiet place, perhaps not very near the city, and have your meals at the chop houses and small restaurants. It is very easy to confine one's self to a fixed amount, and to get into the way of bearing slight inconveniences in the way of travelling third...
...manifest that in athletics, where the co-operation of numbers is necessary, some stronger and, if we may say so, higher motive than this is the indispensable requisite of success. We would not discourage any one, but we advise all to consider the importance of the step they take when they become candidates for nine, crew, or team. The beginning is a private matter with each man; the leaving off is not. His class and the College have a right to know his reasons, and do most certainly judge him according to their sufficiency or insufficiency...
...yards, though in this latter a lack of sufficient training and preparation was most obvious. In the Mile Walk we have only one man to look to, and should he become in any way disabled just before an important meeting, we should have absolutely no one to take his place. The same may be said of the 220 yards' Dash, and the Standing High Jump...
...Bicycle Race also lacks representatives who will work, if we can take last spring for a criterion, for at that time none of our numerous bicyclists could be found disengaged, who were willing to take the trouble to train for Mott Haven. In the Running High Jump we have two or three men on whom we can depend; but the sum total of our athletes to whom we can look for conscientious training is, it has been seen, lamentably small...