Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the necessary amount. The victory was a splendid one and the members of the team well deserve some token from the class. When we learn, therefore, that some men in the class, notably those who represent the boating interest, are unwilling that the football team should have cups, even when more than the necessary money is at hand-money, moreover, earned by the team-we are more than surprised. It seems to us not a little presumptuous on the part of any one to begrudge cups to the men on the eleven, when its management has saved money enough...
...optional examination system was used for the first time exclusively and proved very successful. The second year of the voluntary religious system has proved even more successful than the first. The report of the athletic committee is most encouraging, and in reply to the critics of our athletics the faculty urge, that dyspepsia is less tolerable than a stiffened knee or thumb, and that effeminacy and luxury are even worse evils than brutality." A new regulation requires holders of scholarships to take two physical examinations during the year...
...summer course of the Botanical Department is well supplying a longfelt need, and the new quarters of this department will render it even more efficient. Owing to the delay of the Park Commissioners in building roads, the Arnold Arboretum was delayed the past summer in its work of planting trees...
...hedges. These two simple expedients will prevent the immediate surroundings of the university from taking on at any point the usual aspect of "vacant lots" in the outskirts of towns and villages, features which, in California, on account of the dry summer climate, are apt to be more forlorn even than in the east...
...more than filled the house. Members of the freshman class were quite as conspicuous as usual by their demonstrations. To-night occurs the long-talked-of promenade. No pains nor expense have been spared to make it a complete success in every way. But you are in no mood even to hear of promenades till after your dreaded "mid-years...