Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The near approach of the Yale and Columbia 'varsity races and the Columbia freshman race, naturally turns the attention of the college to the work of the crews. We are unfortunately so situated that the trouble attendant upon getting to the boat-house is so great that the majority of...
There is another process which aims at the same result as cramming. It strives to overcome the same ends, but adopts different means. Both seek to prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It...
THE OFLRICHS TOURNAMENT.Saturday the tournament for the Oelrichs challenge cup was played, under the direction of the National Lacrosse Association. Six clubs were entered, Williamsburgh, Princeton, Stevens Institute, University of New York, Druids of Baltimore, and Harvard. The general expectation in New York was that Williamsburgh would win. The contest...
The following is received in a letter from a graduate of '87, who is at present editor of a prominent daily newspaper in the West. "I notice by the New York Post that the faculty have not put down in the new scheme of electives any course in journalism, short...
"Since our entrance to college no year has been so free from excitement or disturbance, class friction or discipline, as the year now drawing to a close. Naturally we seek a reason for this unexampled quiet. It is not due to any change in the character of our college government...