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...probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them, are not without an effect on character. They are a mental and moral discipline of no slight value. That a considerable portion of the leisure time of students is most profitably passed in athletic exercises, such...
Prof. Wiggin still adheres to his opinion that a great storm will visit this locality today; the utmost consternation prevails in many places, and the shipping interests of New York have already been unfavorably affected to the extent...
...York Times discusses the negotiations for the Harvard-Yale race: "The method by which the annual Harvard-Yale boat-race is arranged is peculiarly clumsy and fraught with the utmost peril. About six months before the usual time of the race one of the colleges - say Yale, for example - proposes that a race shall be rowed, and thereupon each college confides the ensuing diplomatic correspondence to a committee. The Yale committee writes a formal letter offering to row under certain conditions, which will give the Yale crew every advantage. Thus, Yale will demand that if her crew arrives...
...either at Bartlett's or with the chairman of the committee. If one hundred names are not secured by that date the album cannot be furnished this year, and the money already deposited will be refunded. It is thus the interest of all desiring the album to do their utmost to increase the number of subscribers...
...work with the class may be resumed within a few days. As soon as these arrangements are determined upon announcement will be made; also a list of those seniors whose negatives have been destroyed will be published. It is hoped that such members of the class will exercise the utmost generosity in furnishing sittings, and so help forward the class work thus unavoidably delayed...