Word: extended
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...establishment of the Classical Club. All who have received second-year honors are eligible to membership, and the number of members is already large. The professors and instructors have actively interested themselves in the enterprise, and every thing promises a long and useful life to the club. We extend it our heartiest good wishes...
...recognize the pluck shown by the members of the Yale team, but at last their old rivals have surpassed them. There has always existed thorough cordiality between our players and those of Princeton, and we appreciate our opportunity to congratulate the champions upon their well-earned victory. We extend our heartiest good wishes to them, and hope that we may soon be able to enjoy the privilige of meeting them once more on the field...
...candidates for the crew, but also of all the members of the class and college. The misfortune that has befallen him is one for which we believe no one can be blamed, and the class can view it only as a matter of pure accident. We extend our sympathy to eighty-nine's captain for his injury and to the class for its real loss. We trust, however, that this misfortune will in no way dampen eighty-nine's enthusiasm in boating matters; and that whoever may succeed to the position of captain of the eighty-nine crew will work...
...above paragraph is taken from the Dartmouth, where it appeared recently as part of a plan for a debating society. The idea, contained in it, namely, that a college course in itself, must necessarily be incomplete, that the students are left to themselves to extend the course so that it shall be complete, is not a particularly original idea, yet it is a truth that can never well be lost sight of. The courses that a college is able to offer, whether in languages, science, philosophy or art, do not satisfy every side of human nature and human intellect...
...unsuccessful applicants, and it would appear that they are suffering under unavoidable injustice. If our treasury were receiving anything beside unpaid bills, we might feel like donating a few hundred dollars to the college for use in purchasing microscopes, but under the present conditions, we can only extend our sympathy to the unfortunates, and plead their cause among our richer, but not more generously disposed, neighbors...