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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard and Yale were practically under the management of graduates. It seemed to me at the time a strange exception, and one which could not be well defended. But to change the distance to be rowed from four to three miles was needless. The reason for the change will appear to boating men insufficient. The crews which enter a four-mile race are composed of men, who, in the preliminary class-races and in the preliminary training, have shown themselves equal to the trial. For a contest between the picked men of two colleges, a four-mile course is better...
...appeal for money for Park College the following sentiments appear: "Park College wants the raw materials with which to rebuild its recently burnt building-the boys will do the work. Yale cultivates rowing and produces oarsmen. Park cultivates skilled and useful industry, and produces self-reliant preachers, businessmen and farmers. The one understands the "Oxford stroke," the other the business stroke. The one will stop on a strand. The other will only stop long enough on the mountain top of success to get a good view of the world, when he will take wing-Excelsior...
...Saturday, and the other two are this week. The whole course is illustrated by selections from various sources. It is understood that the college is indebted to Professors Sloane and Osborn for these lectures. Mr. George W. Cable, who was announced for last Monday evening, and did not appear on account of his severe illness, is expected to be here later in the season. There is also a movement to have Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes here some time during the winter. Altogether the lecture course at Princeton this season is the best for a number of years...
...Boston social paper, The Beacon, will appear a week from Saturday...
...thoughtlessness. If it is true, it will bring discredit not only on them but on students elsewhere. For people are only too apt to put the whole mass of students in the country in the same class and judge them all by some reports of thoughtless acts which appear In the common newspapers...