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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AFTER a meeting of the Athletic Association on Jarvis Field the various incidents that happened, the demeanor of the athletes, their feats of strength and agility, - these are all duly recorded. Very seldom, however, do we see in the Advocate or Crimson any account of what has happened at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE RECITATION-ROOM. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

Old-fashioned people might call this a waste of time; and if your object in life were to become an old-fashioned person, I suppose that it would be so. But the better a man of the world knows life in the world, the better off he is, and the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

I HAVE noticed with regret the dissension in the present Senior class in regard to the class elections; but, as far as my observation will allow me to judge, there is little probability of an arrangement satisfactory to all parties concerned. And it seems to me that some radical change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A UNIVERSITY WEEK. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

DEAR JACK, - Two or three hints which you have let drop in your letters have led me to think that, like most boys who enter a new world, you have been a little surprised at the moral tone of the society in which you find yourself; and presuming this to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

The fact is, that neither of these views is right. Until this year you have been a boy. It was thought proper, and very rightly, too, that you should be launched into the world with a set of principles which would make you a valuable member of society; and these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

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