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...famous Druid Lacrosse Club of Baltimore want to arrange a match with our twelve, and have written, asking if our team can play them...
What does the college student want? Are his views communistic, socialistic, nihilistic? Does he claim that he can and should teach as well as learn, and that he and his instructor should be equal? Is he rapid in his ideas, and does he believe in the effectiveness of dynamite? To all these questions, no. The poor man, the laborer, the ignorant and idle citizen, may cry out for common living, for community of money, property, government, and even brains; but the college student is able to realize that two classes are the law of nature; that the instructor...
...criticisms of minor points in the management of the games of Saturday may enable the officers of the H. A. A. to make the other meetings run more smoothly. First of all, there was very apparent want of activity on the part of the stewards and "ushers," except in getting in everybody's light. There was no one to summon the contestants in sparring at the beginning of each round. This made it necessary for the referee, Mr. O'Reilly to do this himself, something which we have never seen done at a winter meeting before, and hope never...
Some time ago a communication was published which advocated the inauguration of a system by which the daily papers might be utilized by the management of the library to the advantage of the students. We hope that the recommendation will be followed. For this want of a speedy and easy reference to recent newspaper publications has long been felt, and a plan to meet it successfully would greatly be appreciated by the students. Many valuable newspaper articles bearing upon topics of great moment are practically lost from the present inefficient means for preserving them. When such articles have become history...
Says the Hartford Courant: "The younger Mr. Charles Francis Adams not having found Greek useful to him either in soldiering, or in railroading, the Harvard faculty has decided not to require sub-freshmen hereafter to pass an examination in that language, tho' they may if they want to. It will be Latin's turn next, we suppose. Latin is a "fetich," too, and the decree has gone forth at Harvard that the "fetiches" must go. Perhaps some other things may go with them, but that is Harvard's lookout, not ours...