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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...OEstrus, from California, seems to have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

AFTER the last storm it was found that one or two inches of snow had drifted through the transom of Weld. Query: Ought the ornamental in architecture to predominate over the practical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...inscription on the base-ball case, in the Auditor's room of Memorial Hall, is a curious melange: Ex dono '78, '79, '80, January, 1878. The grammatical canon is yet to be found which authorizes such a jumble of Latin, Arabic numerals, and English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...list and order of Athletic events will be found in our brevity column. It contains all the features of the former tournaments, with the exception of the parallel bars, - an event which proved uninteresting from the want of skilful contestants. However, there are still events enough to occupy the full time of the meetings. We are pleased also to note that the sports have been changed to the afternoon; a time more convenient to all, we are sure, except our good Boston members, who may consider the change an encroachment upon their Saturday promenades in town. The prizes will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...thousand other things. The more important question is, What is "the thing"? and this we have never been able to solve, though we, like many others, have devoted our life to that end. Some say, "not to study"; others, "to dress well"; the Freshmen think they have found it at the Howard: but the general opinion seems now to indicate light ulsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE THING." | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

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