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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dudley, the former quarter-back on the 'Varsity eleven, will enter the Law School next fall. He has been very successful as gymnasium director at Exeter this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1888 | See Source »

...finds us up abreast with Harvard, Yale and Columbia. a university of 1000 men, with a good gymnasium, with an athletic council out of debt, an eight oared shell of first-class build and model already paid for and unequalled facilities for rowing. With far less material in former years, we have crossed the line with twelve college crews astern, we have rowed the greatest of crews, Oxford; we have filled our library so full of trophies that some have to be rolled up and tucked away for very lack of room. Now, out of all this material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rowing at Cornell. | 1/19/1888 | See Source »

...seventh number of the Advocate appeared Monday and seems to maintain the standard set by the former numbers of the year. There is but a scanty lot of editorials, a fault which can be excused at a time when there is little going on to deserve a paragraph, but if the truths contained in these few editorials are taken to heart by the students, they may bear some fruit. The number opens with a short poem of four stanzas in which the author attempts to tell in verse a romantic incident which ends unhappily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 1/18/1888 | See Source »

...interests of practical life must no longer be neglected in our educational system. Englishmen must be prepared at school to compete in commerce and in business with their foreign rivals, and for this purpose they will have to renounce in part that training in Latin and Greek which former generations of Englishmen have received. The assertion is made more peremptorily, more impatiently than ever before. Let us give up the preposterous doctrine that Latin must be learned in order to learn French, and let us teach French in order to teach Latin. In so doing we do not sacrifice literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford and Cambridge Favor Modern Languages. | 1/16/1888 | See Source »

...Hamilton, Harvard, '87, former president of the CRIMSON board and professor on classics in Chattanooga University, will sail for Europe early in June to spend the summer in Berlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1888 | See Source »

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