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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...give. The College gives them only to the twenty best scholars in the class. It's a great honor to get one; fellows that have Deturs hang them up in frames. You hardly ever get more than one; my having two is superb, equal to getting a double first at Oxford...
Just then, to my great astonishment, in came another boy, ruddy and cheerful, as different as possible from the first. His face seemed familiar, but I could not quite remember where I had seen...
...Pooh! That's nothing, father, a mere form; relic of an old custom. You see, about a hundred years ago, the twenty best men of the class used to contend in an examination for the first place. The nineteen who did n't win were told that they might go away into the country, that is, sever their connection with the College, for a while, study up and try their fate again. The custom has died out, but the notices remain, and now they are sent round to show that you are in the first twenty of your class...
...WINSOR, in his first annual report of the condition of our Library, speaks of the alterations in the reading-room, and recommends that some arrangement be made for the use of this room in the evening. Such a privilege is much desired by a large number of students. The advantage which it would give to those who desire to consult many books is obvious; the Library is almost the only place in the University where we are secure from interruption, and many students find it far more convenient to work there than in their rooms. Again, those...
...York World has sent us two most amusing little pamphlets, "The World's Almanac for 1879" and "Archibald the Cat." we recommend the first especially to our readers, who can hardly fail to buy it when we tell them that it contains many more of those amusing fables which the World published last year...