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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after all, people do not select the large colleges for their sons on account of the educational facilities offered so much as for the social advantages. As an example of the superior educational advantages of large universities, I might mention the case of two brothers, one of whom graduated from Rochester, and the other from Yale. The Yale man became very famous as a base-ball pitcher, but is now picking up a living as a cowboy. The Rochester man is a professor in a medical college at Cleveland, and is rapidly rising in his profession, although he has found...
Eighty-seven had a strong crew in her freshman year, and four of the members of that crew rowed on the university last year against Yale and Columbia. Although four men were thus taken out of the boat, and one more had to give up rowing on account of sickness, leaving very few old men on the crew, yet they went to work with a will, and, as everyone must remember, defeated eighty-five in a very close and exciting race last spring; the other two classes not being in the race at all owing to accidents, though the result...
...events. The games were held in the old Madison Square Garden on an eight lap track, not in the best of condition, making any longer straight dash than 70 yards impossible. Wendell Baker, who had entered in the 250 and 440 yards, was unable to run on account of a sprained ankle, thus disappointing his many friends; but Mr. Wells ran a tremendous race in the 250 yards, he being the scratch man against a field of fifteen, all carrying large handicaps; he won his heat in the very fast time of 27 1-5, but in order to save...
...least discouraged them; on the contrary they are this year making greater efforts than ever before to have victory come to them, and thus gain some honor for the blue and white. They formerly rowed in the gymnasium belonging to the Columbia Grammar School; this, year, however, on account of the increased number trying for positions on the crew, they were forced to abandon their old quarters and look around for larger and more suitable accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium for the entire season, and are to be seen rowing there every afternoon at half past four...
...college paper into a Stimson or a Stockton; a famous novelist has said that a short story well done, is a more difficult task than a novel, - and it is short stories our college papers demand as a rule. The Monthly has seen this defect, and on account of its appearing at intervals of a month, has been able to present its readers with uniformly good stories, albeit rather gloomy at times. Now, in our humble opinion, translations like Mr. Santayana's "May Night," and Mr. Mitchell's "Little Dauphin," are worth twice to the college literary world what...