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...time to time and we are glad that at last our words have taken root. The nuisance which the small vendors of the Boston dailies create about the steps of Memorial and the chapel, is no little matter, and their dismissal will be hailed by all as a great boon. It may be hard on the boys, but their noise and squabbles are the cause. In this as in other things the innocent must suffer with the guilty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/4/1887 | See Source »

...often happens that a man is obliged, by illness or other causes, to cut his laboratory work for a few days. He thus gets behindhand in his work, yet through no fault of his own. If the laboratories were open on Saturday afternoon it would be a great boon to such students, enabling them to make up, without obliging them to cut or crowd other things as important, which they may have on their hands. It seems to me that such a course would entail a comparatively trifling increase in trouble or expense to the University, and would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/2/1887 | See Source »

...very much elated over the boon which track-athletics have received here this spring. Not only do we congratulate ourselves on our success at the intercollegiate games, but it is especially gratifying to observe the number of records which have been broken by Yale men. At our spring games the intercollegiate records were broken in the mile run and throwing the hammer, and cur college records were broken in the pole-vault and in putting the shot. The intercollegiate records in the same events, leaving out the polo-vault and adding the broad jump, were again broken by Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 6/9/1887 | See Source »

...editing an undergraduate journal, and yet does not know the difference between a communication and an editorial, and charges upon editors the errors of their correspondents, begs piteously that we will hereafter allow him to prattle about Mott Haven without reproof. Ever ready to accommodate, we readily grant the boon, and also go still farther by engaging a new acquatic correspondent who will hereafter furnish to The Spirit a hebdomadal letter on Harvard rowing, couched in the style so dear to the heart of the aforesaid petitioner." - Spirit of the Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 4/26/1886 | See Source »

...River roads, for vacation, did a thriving business. The windows in the dormitories had their semi-annual washing, so that it will be some weeks before the "early-rising rosy fingered dawn" will see into the college rooms and disturb the sleepers. Thanks be to the goodies for this boon. The weather during the first half of the recess was as unpleasant as cold rains and low clouds and northeast winds could make it. But on Saturday there was a decided and most agreeable change. The change, however, of course had to have some drawbacks. For while the warm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Recess. | 4/14/1886 | See Source »

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