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...Newburyport, Salisbury and Hampton. All who can are urged to start with the club, even though they feel unequal to a ride of two day's duration. Such members need go only as far as Ipswich, where all will take dinner, and while the others go on they can turn back, reaching home by 6 o'clock Saturday evening. A ride of this sort is especially enjoyable, and will, besides, furnish excellent practice for the hare and hound chase the club expect to hold on the following Thursday...
Yale's refusal to join with the other New England colleges in prohibiting the playing of ball games with professional nines gives an entirely new turn to the aspect of the question. The refusal, we make no doubt, must be generally regarded as an act of discourtesy to all those colleges which have joined in the agreement, and especially a slight upon Harvard, where the movement originated. Of course the Yale faculty has a perfect right to settle its own regulations in regard to athletics in the way it deems wisest; but nevertheless it is undoubtedly an act of rudeness...
...fact than has been usual heretofore, and college students themselves more often come to occupy important positions in the plots of most novelists. All this is indicative, we think, of the increasing influence and importance that college men, as college men, are assuming in ordinary society. This fact, in turn, is attributable to the growing maturity of college students and the freer entree into society that is consequently secured to them...
...chronic defeat met with everywhere. No objection whatever is offered to their reorganization in the fall, and the chances are that if the obnoxious element is kept out, and the right men obtain control, lacrosse will once more be set on its booming career, and may after all turn out a credit instead of a disgrace to Columbia...
...super's part, without learning how; and his text-books have not taught him how. Whatever business or trade he may go into, he will find a crowd of youths, often the sons of wealthy men, learning as apprentices, from the very beginning working in a queue, waiting their turn for advancement. After the apprenticeship is over, the scholarship which he has acquired at college will serve a useful part and help him to success. Homer and Legendre will make him not only a better lawyer or preacher, but merchant and miner, simply because they made him a bigger...