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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst Student needs to learn that it is never safe to jump at conclusions. Because they were unable to find the answer to the riddle in our poem called "After Browning," they should not pronounce it "merely a collection of words indiscriminately thrown together." There is so good a point to the answer that we should be sorry to have the Student miss it merely from dulness, so try it again, and if you have to give it up let us know, and we'll send you the solution...
...future historian, seeking information concerning the manners and customs of the Yale undergraduate in the year of grace 1876, will find the Courant of February 12 a mine of information on the subject. For some time past both the Record and the Courant have been greatly excited over a prospective event, which is called in New Haven the "Junior Promenade." This "Promenade" has finally taken place, and from the account which the Courant gives of it we are led to infer that polite society is not the sphere for which the Yale man was created. "We would (sic) like," says...
...exchange list has increased so rapidly of late that we find it impossible to give to all the papers sent us the attention which their many merits doubtless deserve. We have therefore decided to discontinue the publications which, either from the distance at which they are published, or for other reasons, are more interesting to others than to ourselves, and we shall hereafter not exchange with the Adrian College Recorder, College Herald, College Mercury, Journal of Chemistry, Lafayette Monthly, College Chronicle, Tripod, Transcript, Owl, University Review, University Herald, University Magazine, College Olio, Insurance Journal, Spectator, Reporter, Alfred Student, Collegian, Wells...
...changes must be made if it is to become permanent. The system of four distinct boat-clubs has now been established for a year and a half, and the organization is found to be so imperfect as to be threatened with complete failure unless some remedy be applied. To find by what changes the present system may be improved is the purpose of this article...
...must be because the students in general are not satisfied with their management. No student will pay $15 a year to a boat-club unless he considers the benefit he derives from the club to be worth the money. Why is it, then, that some of the clubs find it so difficult to obtain a membership sufficiently numerous to indemnify Mr. Blakey and fulfil their contract, and how may this state of things be improved...