Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dartmouth correspondent of the Exonian in the course of a letter remarks: "When I touch upon base-ball at Dartmouth, I am well aware that I am nearing delicate ground, because our position last year was not one calculated to call forth general acclamation. However, there is always that bright beacon - hope-and it really looks now as if we might "take a brace." Our prospective pitcher is Dillon, of '88, who in form and action resembles your old foe, Vinton, more than anyone else I have ever seen. One of the Western college journals says that 'Dartmouth...
Webster. Oration, entitled The First Settlement of New England, or an equivalent amount in the speeches,-Plymouth, Bunker Hill, Adams and Jefferson, Knapp Trial, Dartmouth College, Seventh of March (1850) Constitution a Compact, Hayne, Removal of the Deposits, Extension of Capital, Girard College, Ogden vs. Sanders...
...history of college journalism begins with the Dartmouth Guzette which was first issued in the year 1810; and it is a noteworthy fact that Daniel Webster lent his first literary efforts to this college journal. To-day there are fully two hundred college papers regularly published...
Prof. Hardy, of Mathematics, of Dartmouth College, has refused the presidency of Bowdoin, proffered...
...Dartmouth is not anxious for an oratorical association. It says: "Oratorical contests are often opposed by faculties as tending to create false standards of public speaking. But, setting aside all objections that may be urged against existing associations, the idea of forming a new one seems a little absurd. It would be much better to have inter-collegiate spelling contests, or, if spelling is too easy, let chemical formulae be substituted for words. While we are about it, we might also institute inter-collegiate mathematical examinations, or perhaps some contest to see which college gives the best instruction in Greek...