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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class is once more called upon to sustain the loss of one of its members, in the death of Aaron Roger Crane. The sudden death of a student within less than a month of graduation must be attended with peculiar sadness, and cannot fail to cast a gloom over the whole college. It is hard to realize that a man who seemed in such perfect physical condition should meet with such a sudden and mysterious end, and this complete unexpectedness only serves to make the event more impressive in its sadness. To those who knew Roger Crane, and they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/5/1884 | See Source »

...statue in bronze of Rev. John Harvard, the founder of Harvard, which is to be given by General Samuel J. Bridge to the University, is being cast and will probably be dedicated about Sept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/4/1884 | See Source »

...favor with which the "new subjects" are received shows plainly how undergraduate feeling is disposed toward them. Men at college fully realize the nature of the times into which they have been thrown and when allowed to shape their own courses, naturally follow out this new line of education. Cast-iron rules of education must lose their place as this feeling of revolt against them grows stronger, and it is gratifying, as we have said, to see the President of our university take his present stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/24/1884 | See Source »

...presidential preferences of the Princeton men are indicated by the following ballot : Of 306 votes cast, Blaine received 111 ; Edmunds 91 ; Tilden 26 ; Bayard 16 ; Lincoln 12 ; Arthur 11, Cleveland 10 ; Carlisle 4 ; Gresham, Sherman, McDonald and Payne 3 each ; and 11 scattering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/9/1884 | See Source »

...important office in the government depends upon the answer. The custom that has hitherto prevailed in the selection of overseers, and the custom that would probably have prevailed for years to come, had not Mr. Garrison stepped in, if adopted in our national politics would have been merely to cast a blind vote for the more popular of the two gentlemen who were candidates for the speakership, trusting to the good sense and honesty of the successful candidate to solve the important question after the election. But, fortunately for our government, this is not the way it is administered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/30/1884 | See Source »

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