Word: column
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...publish in another column a comparative table of athletic sports, from which it will be seen that we were beaten in every event, except the three-mile run, a race which was on but one other programme. Undoubtedly, the fact that Jarvis had not been in a condition for use has much to do with the poor showing in athletics Harvard makes this year; but we hope that the comparison, so unfavorable this year, may be changed next spring, and that the Athletic Association may again meet with the success which it once...
...Trinity Tablet has just discovered that Herr Joachim has been made Oxford Professor of Music. It is sufficiently absurd to mention this fact of musical and general interest in a column headed "At other Colleges," but to do this two months behind time is certainly adding insult to injury...
...will be seen by reference to the arrangement of examinations to be found in another column the annuals will begin on Monday, May 28, and not on Saturday the 26th, as stated last week...
...selecting the team. When the honor of the University is interested in a game, as it was in that of last Saturday, it is the duty of the Captain to select the players for their superior skill, and for that reason alone. We refer our readers to another column for a full account of the game...
...rash and inconsiderate Argus, having ventured a "churlish criticism" of the Beacon, has been completely annihilated in half a column of simile, seriousness, and sarcasm. We, therefore, profiting by such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether...