Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Livingston of the Columbia Law School, a former member of '85, is in Cambridge for a few days...
...publish to-day a very interesting and factions letter giving an account of the trials and tribulations of a West Point cadet, written by a-former member of the junior class at Harvard. The rigorous training of a cadet at a military academy is in sharp contrast to the freedom of action which is allowed at institutions of literary learning in this country, but undoubtedly the only way to make good and efficient army officers is to have the cadets subject to such severe discipline as gradually to accustom them to the hardships which they must endure in active service...
...class races, the second of May, gives the crews a very short time for preparation. Five weeks is hardly long enough to learn the difficult art of watermanship. It cannot, therefore, be expected that the class crews will attain the standard of perfection which they reached in former years. This lack of time upon the water presses hardest upon the freshman crew, who are all new men, and need a longer time to get into condition for shell rowing. All the crews, except the freshman, are now using sliding seats in barges, and will enter their shells...
When the college opens for the fall term next year, the students who return to Cambridge will find a new dormitory standing upon the site formerly occupied by the store of J. F. Noera. The new building, to be known as Hilton Block, will be an extension of the dormitory built by Mr. J. M. Hilton last year, and access to the three upper floors will be had through the entrance to West Hilton. The first floor of the building will be occupied by the store of Leavitt and Peirce, whose former store will be taken by Mr. Noera...
...merely because if he hit his opponent so hard that he disabled him, he would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers' "? Either the gentleman who was so badly handled was also ignorant of sparring, or else in an unfit condition to appear; in the former case he would also come under the pale of criticism, in the latter, to what purpose are contestants examined before entering contests? If he knew nothing about sparring, he has himself to blame for the blows he received; if he was unwell, Dr. Sargent should never have permitted...