Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students and faculty of St. John College in Minnesota are engaged in a hunt after a meteor which was seen to fall at no great distance from the college...
...communication in yesterday's issue in regard to the formation of a sophomore literary society deserves consideration, but we are not prepared to say that it deserves anything more. The existence of an organization in the sophomore year which would be of a purely literary character might prove a great blessing in lessening the power of some of the evils which beset second-year students; but whether any such society could be put upon a foundation which would secure to it inviolably devotion to the principles which gave it birth, is a matter of extreme doubt. There...
...every weekly meeting. The programme was as follows: Music, declamation, select readings, essays, and an oration. In the midst of this earnest work the social side of the society was not neglected. Five or six times during the year private theatriricals were given, and the Athenaeum farces gained a great local reputation. It is recorded that on one night, an invitation having been extended to the Institute, that society came in a body and enthusiastically applauded the play...
...successes increased, until at last she holds the cherished Mott Haven cup. This success has been due to diligent and faithful work on the part of our athletes and careful management on the part of the athletic committee. The present officers of the Athletic Ascociation are taking a great interest in Yale's welfare in their department of athletics, and are leaving nothing undone which will in any way make success more certain. It is their aim to develop men for those events which are not very strong at present. Coxe's graduation leaves Yale without the winner...
...Harvard Banjo Club seems to be in great demand this fall. It has already five engagements for the rest of November and December...