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...Boston Herald states that tug-of-war contests are falling into disfavor in the best-regulated gymnasiums on account of their dangerous results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/15/1887 | See Source »

...there seems to be no reason why '90 should not place a team in the field which shall be worthy of her. She has a conscientious captain, who is guided by the advice of Captain Willard, and who, with the aid of the men under him, will bring no disfavor on '90's name through remissness of duty. It is his intention to form a second nine to practice with the regular team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Nine. | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

...half-dozen or more themes in sophomore English, only one has been subjected to the inter-student criticism, which the class was led to expect with every succeeding theme. Have the instructors in this course lost faith in their original plan, or has "ye student critic" got himself into disfavor? It is to be hoped that both have happened, and that the latter especially is the case, for nothing can be more pitiable than some of the expression of jealousy and puerility handed in as criticisms this year, in this and one or two other similar courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT CRITICISM. | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

...greater degree than that of the students. The new system of government, of which the senate is merely a phase, was at first as thoroughly misunderstood at Amherst as it has been since throughout the college world, and the senate shared the same disapprobation and ridicule. The old disfavor is, of course, rapidly dying out; the senate is no longer expected to accomplish impossible things, and depreciated because it does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Amherst Senate. | 3/27/1885 | See Source »

...thim's students, thank hivens I ain't had no education," was the remark of an old Irishman as the prosession of '80 came in sight. Others, however, did not regard the students with such disfavor. "The sidewalks," according to the college paper, "were lined with beautiful young ladies of Boston's first families;" and they greeted the procession with every demonstration of approval. Sixty-five handkerchiefs, one black shawl, and various pieces of hats is the current Crimson's estimate of the more tangible marks of maidenly favor con ferried. This procession of '80 was The largest and best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torchlight Processions of the Past. | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

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