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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fifth fiscal year began on Sept. 23. The membership fee is $2 50 at whatever time paid, and all memberships expire at the end of the fiscal year (Sept...
Such temptations are unquestionably to be found in the secret societies whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness. They are to my mind the greatest (and a most insidious) evil in the present constitution of the college, and are the nurseries both of extravagance and of vicious habits. Their debasing effect on those who aspire to them as a mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them...
...Amherst Student complains that the second Yale game was thrown away by their team. They asked to have the game called at the end of the seventh inning in order to catch a train although the prospects of their winning were very favorable...
...leaving Groton, one's attention is immediately attracted by the huge grand stand on the New London side of the river, which is built directly opposite the finish of the course. As only the end of the race can be seen from the stand, various methods are employed to keep the spectators informed about the progress of races from the very start. In the first place, there is a little telegraph office adjoining, through which a constant communication is kept up between the start and each separate half mile flag, and these messages are posted directly in front...
...take great pleasure in commending the manager of the freshman nine, who by his diligence and care, has brought the nine out so well financially, as to have quite a surplus at the end of the season. In these times, when we hear so much about "debts of several hundred - or several thousand - dollars," left by treasurers and managers of various college societies and associations for their successors to pay, it is a pleasure to meet with such a thorough, conscientious manager as Mr. Woodbury. He has not only paid up all the expenses of the nine...