Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The great event of the afternoon was the middle-weight sparring between G. R. Ashe, '87, and I. R. Thomas, '88. Thomas is twenty pounds heavier and a little shorter than Ashe, who is of very slight build. The first round was opened by Ashe with a smart blow on...
The man who comes to college and does not avail himself of the opportunity to attend the lectures that are constantly being given, is not enjoying the advantages and benefits which Harvard offers in this particular direction. Lectures are the great means by which we may gather the ideas of...
There is, moreover, one great advantage to be gained by the establishment of a good school of political science at Washington, which Mr. Carpenter has not mentioned, that is the better training of our very highest officials. For from the time that Jackson laid down the principles of international law...
Mr. Carnochan, '86, will be unable to train down to enter the feather-weight sparring at the winter meetings.
A German student was once heard to remark: "What a spiritless land this America is, where you cannot find a dozen young fellows who will sit down to a cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by...