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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spain, Germany and northern France being modeled after the University of Paris, and those in Italy and southern France after the University of Bologna. Originally they were not universities, in the modern sense of the term. The nucleus of the modern university was merely a gathering of pupils around a teacher of eminence and repute, whom they supported by fees. The teacher, who was called "doctor" or "magister artum," had no power of conferring degrees. If he was a lecturer of great repute pupils flocked around him, and then, finding himself unable to do the necessary work, he chose...
...marks in Algebra have not been given, out. They will be sent around with the others at the close of the academic year...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Less than one month remains of the year and still the question as to whether the freshmen are to be admitted to the class day exercises around the tree is undecided. Whatever decision the committee of the seniors reach they should certainly lose no more time in making it known, or if they are still deliberating, the quicker they reach some result the better. The proposal that the freshman game with Yale should decide the question has met with such a sensible and evident opposition on all hands, that it ought not to have any effect...
...grounds, this afternoon. There will be need of a crowd to spur them on, the Yale nine will not be allowed more than six runs apiece, and we long for a foeman worthy our steel." etc. There's nothing like "hoping for the best" and scattering it all around for the benefit of the disheartened. - [Yale Courant...
...most promising plan would be to build a fence of the description given by one of your correspondents along Jarvis and Oxford streets. This would not be so great an eyesore as a fence completely around the grounds, and would effectually prevent any one seeing a game without paying. For when the laboratory and dormitory on North avenue are finished there will be no entrances to the field except such as can be easily guarded...