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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PEOPLE outside of college seem to think that we are in a sort of lion-lying-down with-the-lamb condition here, and are all loving friends. "Of course you know John Grinder; he is in your class," they say; - John G. being a man whom you know merely in the catalogue, or, at most, have a nodding - I can't say bowing - acquaintance with. Now, shall we confess to these outsiders that there are many different circles of friends in each class, and that we are, in short, cliquish? Doggy, who never speaks to any one except the four...
...statue of Josiah Quincy, former President of the University, which is now standing in Memorial Hall, is the work of Mr. W. W. Story, and is the gift of Mr. Thomas G. Appleton and others...
...Worse than all the scratch men were not our champions, but that mark was assigned to W. M. Watson and G. D. Phillips, neither of whom is within gun-shot of first-class form, Watson's best record since 1876 being worse than 7 min. 43 sec., and Phillips's best performance is 7 min. 38 2/5 sec. Such work as this is highway robbery under the guise of handicapping, and is a disgrace to all who are responsible for it. When the club next give any handicap games, if they will submit to us their list of entries...
...provisional assignment of Commencement parts is as follows: Orations, Hale, Swayze, Crawford; Dissertations, Macfarlane, Case, Andrews, Hills, Hyde; Disquisitions, Patten, Thayer, R. W. Ellis, Faunce, Poor, Sylvester, Schofield, Dalzell, G. M. Burrill, Newhall, Porter, F. Brewster, Atherton, Almy, Lawrence, J. A. Brown, Keyes, Madden, H. Butler, W. E. Smith; Essay, Taussig...
...reduce the times of other years. The handicapping was a great success, and tempts us to say that it will be well for the Association to institute handicaps in everything next spring. The officers of the course were: Referee, F. W. Thayer, '78; Judges, S. Butler, '77, H. G. Danforth, '77, R. Trimble, '80, W. Kane, '82; Timekeepers, W. Twombley, '79, and W. Hooper, '80; Starter, F. M. Ware, '79; Field-Marshal, W. Hooper...