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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There was no regular examination in German 1 a last Friday since Professor Bartlett thonght the paper too difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/17/1890 | See Source »

...week. The play is a modern comedy based upon ordinary scenes in Wall Street. The characters represent typical New York financiers and those who are popularly supposed to be their victims. Helen Dauvray, the heroine, is excellent as an American girl of sense and and humor and carries a difficult part well. The hero represents the head of the New York Clearing House and is said to be a good study of the original. As a whole the acting, which is admirable, is much better than the play itself, which is very wordy and loosely put together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theatres. | 10/29/1890 | See Source »

...line. The criss-cross adeed twenty-five yards and soon Phelanran around the end and scored. Whitehead kicked the goal. Score, 11-0. Ninety-four made a little improvement but soon Phelan ran around the other end and almost scored when time was called. It would have been difficult for a team to take less interest, play with less snap and team work than did the freshman team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter 11; Ninety-four, 0. | 10/23/1890 | See Source »

...make it. There is a divine world for us because we postulate it, because we act as if it existed. This part of Kant's doctrine is the ossence of common sense, and contains the philosophy of the modern high-minded man of the world. Kant only became difficult to understand when he proceeded to investigate all the world of experience in the light of this theory. Towards 1769 signs of a revolution in Kant's mode of thinking were visible. He became convinced that space and time did not exist. Therefore all the outward world, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Royce's Lecture. | 10/23/1890 | See Source »

...happens to have an experienced waiter one can get along well enough, but if one is so unfortunate as to have a new man it is anything but a pleasant place to dine. What it would be if one hundred and twenty-five more men were admitted it is difficult to understand. It would create a hubbub entirely inconsistent with anything like decency, and would be unbearable. We heartily endorse the position taken on the Advocate on this subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/18/1890 | See Source »

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