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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...volume issued last year among "juveniles," entitled "Three Vassar Girls Abroad" had the effect of exciting the direful wrath of the Vassar Miscellany to an unusual degree. Undaunted, the authors announce for publication this fall, "Three Vassar Girls in England." The esteemed Miscellany has a hard task before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/1/1883 | See Source »

...method which Yale is trying this fall of having a class tournament in tennis to determine who shall represent the college at the coming intercollegiate match at Hartford is said to work very well. The immediate effect of the change has been to nearly double the number of entries, which now amount to fifty. The HERALD has already suggested the advisability of a trial of this method in one of Harvard's tournaments; our argument would seem to be strengthened by the result of Yale's experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/27/1883 | See Source »

...players in the nine were successively maimed and prevented from playing, so that of the men who now constitute the nine all but three, Smith, Beaman and Lovering, have been obliged to lay off one or more games. This was, of course, fatal to systematic practice, but its bad effect has not been so marked as would naturally have been expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY NINE. | 6/22/1883 | See Source »

...Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students, we have infinitely better opportunities for judging the effect of this system than even your watchful care can give you, we earnestly desire that the present system of honors should be abolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TROUBLE AT VASSAR. | 6/19/1883 | See Source »

...certainly one thousand dollars in college which could be subscribed to the crew without serious inconvenience to the subscribers, and I hope it will be done. I therefore ask the HERALD to be kind enough to receive cash subscriptions for the crew, and to put some notice to that effect in its columns. Subscriptions should be acknowledged by receipt and notice of the amounts subscribed by each class be published from time to time, and any legitimate expenses be subtracted from the receipts. Men who have already subscribed should not let this influence them, but should subscribe again if possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CREW. | 6/19/1883 | See Source »

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