Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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He who looks back on President Porter's administration will find it one of progress. Every department of the university has been improved, and that too in spite of a scarcity of money; and while no small share of the improvement is due to others than the outgoing president, yet...
Harvard, though nominally out of foot-ball, has yet sufficient interest in the game to form class foot-ball teams and play for a "cup." This is rather startling. To the casual observer it would appear that Harvard, wearied of always coming out well down the list, had decided to...
Boils, poverty, the faithlessness of friends, and the marking system have come down through the ages together to try men's souls. And we have no reason to suspect that these same institutions are not in vogue as tortures for the durned, down below. - Yale Courant.
The carriage that broke down yesterday before Dane Hall may be said to have received a "co-operative reduction."
It is not every one who knows what a grind is, least of all the grind himself. If an intermittent cloister-like life of study is what distinguishes the grind, of what use is his life? It is a preparation for greater things coming after, of course. But some grinds...