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...whole, every indication, speaking at a very early date, to be sure, points to a close and exciting race next spring. The seniors and juniors have an advantage in their experience, while the sophomores will depend upon their superiority in weight and what improvement in form hard work will make between the present time...
...vein. Throughout these drawings are capital hits, well conceived and well executed, but none are so pathetic by half as the canal boat collision, which we are led to believe is no rare occurrence in "New Jersee." The series of the eating clubs are, perhaps, the best on the whole, and touch home to the heart, or elsewhere, of every college man who thinks twice of his dinner. The frontispiece of the new Marquand chapel presents to us a picture not inferior to our former ideas of its beauty, and reminds us of the comparative poverty of our own temple...
...Eberhard Lamest Pupke; secretary, Augustus Dickerson Baker; treasurer, George Henry Barnes; historian, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson. The seniors are trying to determine what sort of an entertainment to give during the winter. The class is about equally divided for a social and a literary entertainment. The outcome of the whole affair will probably be a mixture of the two with not enough of either to make a success...
...breech-cloth. The night before a game was devoted to fasting and prayer; the great Yo He Wah, the Deity, was invoked. The skill displayed in these games was much greater than at present. We are told that the ball was sometimes kept from striking the ground during the whole contention. The old writers lay special stress upon the fact that this game tended to increase the power of self-control; that it was thought to be excellent mental training. In June, 1763, the great Pontiac assembled the Chippewas and Sacs at Fort Mackinaw to have a game of baggatiway...
...Clipper says of last week's hare and hound run: "The meet was on the whole a success, but runs should be held oftener, and thereby develop a branch of athletics in which American amateurs are very weak and deficient when compared with their English cousins...