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...cricket eleven made a splendid record last year, winning every match it played. This fact alone should awaken a strong interest in the game here without any word from us. The management of the eleven, however, is in need of money, and we want to urge men to give heartily the little support the cricket team asks. It is strongly desired that men should subscribe by joining the Association, for they will thus aid the club not only financially but also by personal support...
...Most of the men fail to swing well from their hips, thereby getting a weak stroke and tiring themselves. The usual tendency to contract the stomach, instead of letting it take care of itself and hang naturally, is noticeable. This fault must be overcome if the men don't want to be used up in a short distance. The men must not hurry stroke. The crew is sitting up to its work better, and there appears to be strength enough if properly applied. The first eight row as follows: Stroke, H. R. Bishop (captain), 141 lbs.; 7, W. M. Randol...
...Political arguments: 1 (a) Illiteracy in the South.- Blair in Record, Jan. 27, '88, p. 272. (b) Want of southern interest in negro education.- Rep't of S. C. Sup't of Education. (c) Impoverishment of South.- Brown in Cong. Rec., Jan. 19, '88, p. 566. (d) Insufficiency of school appropriations.- Rep't of La., Ga., N. C. school commissioners, 1886. 2. Uneducated voters harm the State.- Aristotle's Politics; Nation...
...given my testimony in this column to the courtesy of Harvard students in that most trying of all places for one's manners-a Cambridge street car. My wanderings for the past two or three years have given me a good deal of experience in these vehicles, and I want to say that in scarcely more than half a dozen instances, all told, have I seen Harvard men fail of courtesy to other passengers. Many men are coming to be indifferent to the claims of women to any other treatment than they themselves receive in the cars...
...finals. It may be argued that a man should work faithfully and evenly all through the year. Very good; but there are many men who do work faithfully and evenly through the year, but by accident, sickness or stupidity get low marks on the mid-years. naturally such men want to know how they stand. The work of marking the books has got to be done some time, and it might just as well be done now. There is no such damper to honest, zealous work as being obliged to do that work in the darkness of uncertainty...