Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is some talk at Princeton of purchasing the large skating rink there for the use of the various athletic teams. If this should be done it would be a great improvement on the gymnasium for base-ball and other practice...
...record medals are a great success. The seal of the H. A. A. stamped on a gold medal, is surmounted by two bars containing the name of the event and the word "Record...
...government in its disposal of the public domain and in the culpability of Congress in not remedying the evils of the present system; yet no one can say that Dr. Hart has not put the case fairly before the mind and has not clearly shown that the great resources contained in the lands, have been dissipated by the framus of the laws. The article contains an appendix with valuable statistics on the acquirement and disposition of the territory in the possession of the government. The number contains, in addition, short references to the ultimate redemption of the greenbacks in this...
...good university, are found Harvard, Yale, Williams Dartmouth, Brown, Bowdoin and Colby. We cannot have too many endowments of this generous kind for educational purposes in our young country; but with all respect to the good intentions of the donor, we cannot help feeling that in view of the great wants elsewhere and the superabundance in this locality, the gift is rendered comparatively useless by the conditions which bind...
...great deal of interest is felt now, especially among the juniors, in the election of the editors of the Yale Literary Magazine from the junior class, which is to be held next Wednesday. The Lit. being the oldest existing college paper, is regarded with a good deal of reverence, and a place upon its board of editors is rightly regarded as one of the greatest of the literary honors in college. Unlike most college papers, one set of editors do not choose their successors, but every year the junior class elects five of its own members to constitute the board...