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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tour has been the greatest as yet undertaken, even surpassing in length the distance travelled by Gregory's team in 1878. They left Melbourne March 17, and are due in Sydney Nov. 16. During the eight months the Australians will have travelled 35,300 miles. The team undertook no fewer than ninety-eight journeys in England and Scotland, making an aggregate of 5,786 miles, and playing in twenty-nine different cities and towns...
...living. One fifth of the whole number have been clergymen, one-twelfth physicians and only one-eighteenth have entered public life. The mortality has been greatest among the politicians and least among the clergy. A hundred and eighty-nine have become presidents or professors in colleges - no fewer than thirty-two of whom have taken service with their Alma Mater...
...part of the college would have to be excluded from the tree hereafter. As a whole class would have to be excluded, it is only fair that the freshmen class should be, since they have more chances to take part in future exercises than any other class and fewer acquaintances among the seniors than either of the upper classes; but to show that the whole college is interested in freshmen athletics, '82 was willing to suffer the inconvenience the presence of the large crowd would occasion, if the freshmen were so successful as to win a game with Yale...
Speaking only out from the depths of our youth and inexperience we would suggest to our venerable but dyspeptic contemporary, the Yale Lit., that vituperation and scurrility would better become a journal of less dignity and fewer pretensions than itself. If the Lit. must wail, we presume it is all very proper that it should wail with perfect impunity; but we entreat our dear sister to show a more chivalric spirit, and not to vent its spite upon the weak and unprotected alone...
...Eastern colleges in these unsatisfactory elements, and Ann Arbor, Northwestern and Oberlin may well congratulate themselves if, when they are as old as Harvard and Williams and Amherst, they turn out as fine gentlemen, as keen scholars and as earnest Christians. On this side the Alleghanies there are fewer appliances for study, little money and less experience. On the other side there is an abundance of means, and more temptations, greater dangers. But the difference is growing less each year. The West is advancing rapidly, and the 'freshwater' schools are beginning to draw away students from the 'old salts...