Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made such headway in all the leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum routine of high school. It must be admitted on all sides that the undergraduate department of Columbia is far behind the age. The other schools are managed so as to keep abreast of the times, and this system has made them highly successful. A few radical changes would raise a department which is now of little account into greater usefulness, otherwise it can never lift itself above its present...
...though much of the interesting display which usually attends a regatta with a large number of contesting crews is now wanting, the interest shown by people in the annual New London race is becoming more intense each year. We have been unfortunate in the last two races, but far from being discouraged, our athletic men have been stimulated to greater exertions, and we feel confident that the struggle next week as far as our crew is concerned, will be carried on in a manner worthy of Harvard's goods records in the past...
...making elaborate preparations for the week of the races. As Harvard and Yale have each won the same number of races, this year will be unusually important. Consequently it is expected that a larger number of spectators than ever before will be present. The observation train is by far the best place from which to witness the race, but it has always fallen into the hands of "scalpers," owing to the fact that it has been limited to twenty-one cars. Tickets costing $1 have been sold at prices ranging from $2 to $15. President Stevenson, of the Yale navy...
...Professional base-ball players, professional rowers and professional athletes generally far surpass collegians in their specialties. Yet there are people who would rather see contests between collegians than professionals. The reason is that no taint of jockeying attaches to what the college boys do. There is every motive for extreme effort, and public opinion would discountenance every victory by a trick. This trait of disinterested honesty gives a special interest to expressions of political opinion by college men. Moreover, as they are alert in forming opinions, an idea of what the progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics...
...First as to candidates. At Harvard we are told 251 prefer Blaine and 413 Cleveland. So far as it goes this certainly tends to confirm the statesmanship of Mr. Blane's letter from Paris. Turning to Yale, we find there 70 Republicans and 13 Democrats. No expression of preferences for individuals has come to us from Yale. We may seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since...