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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your edition of May 12 is an extract from a recent letter in the Harvard Daily HERALD in regard to "co-eds.," or lady students, at Cornell. I read the letter with great interest and I would like to add to it. For three years I have been constantly in classes, lectures and laboratories with our lady students, and it seems strange that any one should be surprised because they "listen to the same lecture as the men, recite in the same classes," etc. I must confess that my first experience was rather a novel one, and I relate...
...pitch dark and the men had already marched nineteen miles that day and the artillery was not able to move. This is the charge which Porter's enemies have taken up during this winter, having been utterly refuted on the other charges. Mr. Channing closed by reading an extract from the report of the Schofield court, which completely exonerates Gen. Porter and shows that his conduct was most exemplary...
...Cornell Era publishes a lengthy extract on athletics from President Eliot's report, terming it a "commendable reform." "On the basis of President Eliot's plans," it says, "great good may result to a large number who at present take no interest in healthful exercise...
...whichness of the where nor of the when nor even of the which, but of the what that constrains the Philosophical do, but ising the isness of the is is a matter of no less difficulty than the whatness of the what." - [Extract from the Concord School of Philosophy...
From a diary in the College Words and Customs we extract the following account of a class day in 1793 : "The order of the day was this : At ten the class walked in procession to the president's house and escorted him, the professors and tutors to the chapel, preceded by the band playing solemn music. The president began with a short prayer. He then read a chapter in the Bible; after this he prayed again; Cutler then delivered his poem. Then the singing club, accompanied by the band, performed Williams' Friendship. This was succeeded by a valedictory Latin oration...