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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rostrum" is to consist of a compilation of the best articles upon a given topic, which appears during the month in the pages of the college press. The first subject is, "Will the Collegian' interfere with the individual work of the College Press?" The eclectic and chronological pages keep space for all truly meritorious productions published in college periodicals, besides a record of current events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Collegian." | 10/3/1888 | See Source »

...beginning of a movement which, it is to be hoped, will end in the partial or total abandonment of the much-dreaded finals and mid-years. In the foreign universities, the only examinations are those required for a degree; and even these are not answers to a paper, but consist of carefully prepared theses. In those courses here in which theses and special reports are required there is no excuse for the present system, and several instructors have already realized this to such an extent that they give no mid-year papers. The evils of grinding are too well known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1888 | See Source »

...team that will represent Pennsylvania in the match next Wednesday against Harvard will consist of the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cricket Eleven of Pennsylvania. | 6/8/1888 | See Source »

Those present provided for an executive committee similar to that of the '88 management, to consist of the conductor, the president, the leader of violins, and two others, who shall have the power of trying and electing candidates, subject to the ratification by the entire society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officers of the Pierian Sodality. | 6/6/1888 | See Source »

...high in the air, and did not recover his equanimity until one of the spectators, more impartially disposed than the rest, reminded him of the office he was supposed to fill. For his sake, we should also like to hint mildly that an umpire's business does not consist in coaching the members of a team in whose interest college ties bind him. In short, the nine has every reason to feel aggrieved at their treatment, and we are only sorry that a game was arranged at all with the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1888 | See Source »

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