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...Oberlin has given up the custom of having a long vacation in the winter so that students could teach...
...result of the hard work of the Nine in the Gymnasium during the winter, and their regular practice in the field since the weather has permitted it, is seen in the large number of base-hits made in all the games played so far, and in the small number of fielding errors. The outlook in base-ball is most encouraging, and it seems probable that the Nine will even improve on their splendid record of last year...
...might feel that the wise things the lecturer was saying were reaching our ears through a poisoned medium. Though an attempt was made on the part of Americans to admit the pure air, Professor Curtius was petitioned by the Germans to allow the windows to remain closed. In winter the case is still worse, and at the end of the hour the American student, who has been used to better things at home, rushes to the window to get a gasp of pure ether. Unhappy is the man who must sit in the same room for the following hour...
...exceedingly bright. Through the energy of the Captain of the Nine, Very good practice-grounds have been made out of the unpromising foot-ball field. Seats have been erected and comfortable arrangements thereby secured for the return college games. The season has opened auspiciously. The efficacy of the winter's Gymnasium practice is shown by the excellent form in which the Nine shows itself thus early in the season. The new mask has proved a complete success, since it entirely protects the face and head, and adds greatly to the confidence of the catcher, who need not feel that...
...that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake up in the morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing with...