Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connection with the editorial which appeared in our last issue, and which defended the application of the term "'varsity" to our college teams, we wish to offer the following brief account of the origin of the word in question. The word "'varsity" comes to us from the English universities. It was first used on the "bumping-course" at Oxford, where the "bargemen" dubbed the Oxford University eight, "the 'Varsity." This word was speedily adopted by the college men at large, and before long it made its appearance in America...
...following appeared in the New Haven Union last Wednesday: "Some one in Harvard College claims to have discovered a printed account of a Yale-Harvard foot-ball game, played November 20, 1699." The account then follows...
...discuss an author whose life and actions were of such shameless degradation that they should be referred to only in order to subject them to the severest condemnation. With all due regard to French Realism, I can scarcely believe that for two hundred students to listen to a detailed account of such a life, unless it be delivered in order that its hideousness be shown, is either profitable or consistent with the high tone of this college...
...notice in another column shows that an effort is being made to start a series of Physical Seminars. Although this is a hard time of year to start anything, on account of the nearness of the examinations, yet the plan is a good one. In other departments, such as the Mathematical, seminars have proved effective in rousing interest in the work. And a meeting of those interested in Physics will do much to call attention to this branch of college work. At present, among the students at large, the study of Physics is neglected. Few take courses in the subject...
...understand that in one of the courses in Philosophy a large number of men are now at great inconvenience on account of the failure of the publishing house to furnish the number of text books required. This is doubly exasperating to those men who need books, from the fact that the publishers received ample notice before the fall term began. The Co-operative Society is in this instance not at all to blame, and the publishers only are responsible for the non-delivery of the promised books. Examinations are near at hand, and we can only offer our sympathy...