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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Princetonian, by its approval of a scheme of written examinations shows that it cannot conceive of the liberal spirit of a university, but would narrow down the life of an American student to that of the grammar-school boy. We would remind the Princetonian that our "new system of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1889 | See Source »

The college library is open Sunday afternoons from 1 p. m. to sun-down. During the last year it was open 37 Sundays, and 2,894 persons took advantage of the right of using the reserved books in Gore Hall on Sundays.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Report of the Librarian. | 2/5/1889 | See Source »

The thirty-four men who made no answer to the enquiries of the committee on athletics last spring received an average mark for the year 1887-88. calculated at 64.1 per cent. Those who set themselves down in the circular as taking no exercise, 14 in number, had an average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statistics of Athletics. | 2/4/1889 | See Source »

We were informed some weeks ago, that the board of overseers were busy preparing a new set of regulations tending towards a so-called "reform" in college discipline, but we were not in any way prepared to receive such nonsensical resolutions as those passed at the last meeting of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/1/1889 | See Source »

The choir sang Dudley's Buck's "He shall come down like Rain" and Wood-ward's "The Radiant Morn."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 1/25/1889 | See Source »

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