Word: fines
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic outlook at Columbia is good. The candidates for the various teams are in strict training, and great hopes are entertained that the representatives of the blue and white will make a fine record during the coming season...
...they instruct, serve also to polish the student's education. Such courses are pre-eminently those which are stamped with the individuality of the instructor, and which, therefore, are most likely to come under the head of advanced electives. Take, for the sake of an example, Philosophy 4 and Fine Arts 4, courses the life of which is notoriously the personality of the instructors. It will be impossible, as the elective pamphlet is now arranged, for any member of next year's senior class to take these two courses together, and yet they both, from their very nature, should...
...Amos W. Stetson, of Boston, has lately donated Wellesley Chilege a fine collection of paintings, which are valued at about $30,000. These paintings, by the desire of Mr. Stetson, will be kept in the new Farnsworth art building, now almost finished...
...spite of the time devoted to study great interest is taken in almost all branches of athletics, and fine grounds are laid out for cricket, foot-ball and tennis, as well as for track athletics, while about two miles from the school is Long Pond, which furnishes a good stretch of water for the crews. Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden...
...school has a fine gymnasium built about ten years ago. In the basement are the rowing weights and sparring room, while in the second story is a small theatre. The gymnasium proper occupies the first floor and it is here on Easter Monday that the indoor meetings of the Athletic Association are held. The Athletic Association also holds two out-door meetings. The autumn meeting is a handicap, and the spring meeting, which comes on the anniversary of the founding of the school, is the occasion for a general jollification; lunch is served in the gymnasium, and a concert...