Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EVERY now and then some one of our "esteemed" contemporaries inveighs against the appreciative but unconscientious student who borrows the papers from the reading-room. The men at Dartmouth, however, are not quite so wicked as that: they content themselves with cutting out whatever happens to suit their taste, and the rest they leave generously to those who may come after. Moreover, "these persons are the very ones who leave their subscriptions to the Dartmouth unpublished," as that righteously indignant journal informs...
...annual meeting and dinner of the Dartmouth alumni in Boston and vicinity occurred Wednesday evening at the Revere House. A large company was present, and speeches were made by President Bartlett and a large number of other gentlemen...
...college work. In 1875 he took the West Point Academy; in 1877, Vassar College. In 1878, Yale College, after an exciting canvass, wheeled into line, but unanimously re-elected him the following year. The same year ('78) Harvard and Columbia chose him enthusiastically, and were immediately followed by Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, and Wesleyan. He has now no less than 120,000 pictures under contract, and, beginning with West Point in 1875, he has been retained on the superior merit of his work by every college, embracing, at present, Vassar, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, and Wesleyan. Truly a remarkable...
...first college paper was the Gazette, issued at Dartmouth in 1800, chiefly memorable as containing numerous articles by Daniel Webster. This was followed in 1806 by the Literary Cabinet, published at Yale. The oldest of college papers now living is the Yale Literary Magazine, established in 1836. Secretary Evarts was one of the founders of this magazine, and D. G. Mitchell, Dr. J. P. Thompson, Senator Ferry, and President A. D. White have been among its editors...
Intercollegiate Races. - In reference to a resumption of these races, Wesleyan last week sent letters to Brown, Bowdoin, Williams, Trinity, Dartmouth, and Amherst. The replies were not encouraging. Brown and Amherst decline, Dartmouth and Bowdoin have not been heard from, and Trinity and Williams agreed to meet Wesleyan at a convention which was held at Springfield on March 27. What decision was arrived at is not yet known, but it is to be hoped that a race may be arranged between these three colleges...