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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Friday's game with Princeton was almost as surprising in its results as was a certain other game which it is unnecessary to mention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...print below a list of the Electives for next year, with the number of students in each, and the classes to which they belong. The list, of course, is accurate only to a certain extent, but will give an idea of the comparative popularity of the courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTIVES FOR '77-'78. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...must be said that there are some queer stories afloat in Hartford about a little performance decidedly hurtful to Harvard's success, in which a certain Hartford sporting man, with heavy bets on Yale, some gallons of punch, and some six members of the Harvard Nine, figured prominently the night before the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...have passed over as too silly to need refutation several statements which have appeared lately in the Yale papers reflecting on the Nine. But the above extract from the editorial columns of the Courant deserves some notice. There is a certain class of newspapers which publish every bit of scandal they can hear or invent; but we had hoped that the influence of these papers had not reached the college press. In our last issue we had occasion to take the Courant to task for ungentlemanly writing, or, as they call it, wit; this week we have to call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...Sandeau's novels will be found interesting. Le Docteur Herbeau, Sacs et Parchemins, and Mademoiselle de la Seigliere are three of his best. Alphonse Daudet has lately gained a certain celebrity. Most of his novels are very painful reading. Fromont jeune et Risler aine is his best (lately translated under the title Sidonie). Charles de Bernard deserves not to be forgotten. The volume entitled Le Noeud gordien contains several of his stories. Ferdinand Fabre has devoted himself to what might be called the novel of clerical life in France. L'Abbe Tigrane is a work of great power. It will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH SUMMER READING. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

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