Word: eras
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...highly literary, but is full of college news and life. Its founders have wisely adopted a plan somewhat similar to the one in vogue here. The editors are chosen from the four classes by the outgoing board. This is a great innovation, as the editors of the Era are from the Juniors, and are elected by the class, thus making their election more the result of the workings of cliques than real merit. With this new foundation, and men of well-tried ability at its head, the Times may already feel itself on an even footing with the Era...
...Era laments the sad accident at Cornell, and pays a tribute to the memory of Mr. Leggett. It also says that it leaves to the coroner's jury the contradiction of the "charges that have been so ruthlessly made...
...flowing beard, has lately returned shorn of every vestige of his hirsute appendage. A Soph., meeting the aforesaid Prof., after a prolonged stare, and with a knowing wink to his Senior companion, burst out with "By Jove, that's the hardest-looking Freshman I've seen yet." - Era...
...last Cornell Era is a bright and interesting paper. From it we should infer that their ardor is not at all dampened by their ill luck at Springfield. Boating at that college seems to be in an unusually vigorous condition. A regatta is to be held there on the 11th, for the Tom Hughes Cup and for an elegant and expensive cup offered by Mr. Cluck, '74, - an editor, we believe, of the Era...
...Cornell Era. has an article entitled "A Plea for Literary Culture," in which the author has succeeded in giving some very good advice, as far as it goes, and some suggestions which may prove useful to those who have not read them more than sixty or seventy times before. But what we object to in the article is the very narrow view which the writer takes of culture. Were it not that culture is becoming really the ideal for which to work, this would matter little; but as it is, we must try to keep the ideal as high...