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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will of Mr. J. B. Lyon, of Cleveland, the College receives forty thousand dollars, the first bequest since the death of Mr. Vassar...
...rather liked the fellow at first. I thought he was a fresh and ingenuous youth, for whose benefit I could pour forth my reserved stores of wisdom. But after I had told him about fifty times how old I was, how large my allowance was, etc., it began to grow monotonous. I said, "Look here, old fellow! I'll just write down all those things, such as how old I am, how much money my father has, how many sisters I have, how old they are, etc., and then you can nail it up on your door so that...
...first eight of the Pi Eta from '78 are: C. I. Adams, G. K. Boutelle, C. E. Gowen, C. Harrington, M. Hasbrouck, W. Kessler, H. W. Mason, J. M. Miles...
...advantages with none of the disadvantages, and, like a wife in the journey of life, a chum in the little jaunt of college is a good thing to have. I think I should always advise a Freshman friend to take to himself a chum; and yet such counsel, without first consulting that pattern of elder brothers whose advice is fast forming his fraternal relative Jack into the paragon of all Freshmen, I almost hesitate to give. Indeed, I am rather inclined to think that, for the embryo man of fashion, it is, on the whole, expedient to pursue his arduous...
...this subject while another has devoted to the same thing either half the time or twice the time. The question I want to ask is whether it follows as a logical conclusion that in the former case the second man has learned but half as much as the first, and, in the other case, twice as much...