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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Penn. expects to have the strongest crew this year that they ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

Miss Florence Kelly, '82, daughter of "Pig Iron" Kelly, of Pa., well remembered as one of the brightest and most strong-minded women who ever attended Cornell, and whose marriage (as reported) to a distinguished Russian Nihilist was announced some months ago is well remembered at Zurich, Switzerland, where she was one of a little band of students who there sought the higher degrees which they were not allowed to take in other German Universities. While at Zurich, Miss Kelly was prominent in a woman's rights movement which resulted in sending a petition to Congress, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

...been going through a literary revival. All the papers are showing marked ability. Their work, not only in quantity, but in excellence, is greater than it has been before within the memory of present undergraduates; while the competition for places on the various editorial boards is keener than ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

Then the number who are training for journalism is larger than ever before. All such are likely to try to get on some paper here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

...required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want, but such a general knowledge of the science as every high school graduate, who is not fitting for college, is obliged to have before he can get his diploma. Woeful ignorance of the commonest branches of learning has ever been a reproach to college students. The narrow line of studies which they must pursue in order to secure admission to college is the cause of it. Latin, Greek, and Mathematics take up all of their time; the rudiments of the principal sciences are neglected. Does it not seem right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/23/1886 | See Source »

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