Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A large number of students daily go down to the boat house to see the crews go out.
It must be put down and exterminated by the public and social opinion of undergraduates as men and gentlemen, determined to maintain free of spot or blemish their own honor and that of their "alma mater."
Michael Davitt recently lectured before the students of Oxford. He was obliged to remain in one of the college buildings over night and in the morning found his door screwed up. He was compelled to make his exit through a window, letting himself down by sheets tied together.
A great fault in our schools lies in the teachers frequently taking for granted that a pupil has a satisfactory knowledge of a subject of which in truth he knows only the first rudiments. The teacher does not feel sufficiently called upon to become acquainted with the exact state of...
There were but few amusing incidents during the afternoon. The freshmen failed to do their part toward entertaining the crowd on the pier, - that is their crew did, - but the usual number of excited freshmen went rambling through the boat house, asking the difference between a shell and a barge...