Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Of all drinking customs probably "Pledging" is the oldest. By this custom the man pledged arose and stood, with drawn sword, near the one who drank, to protect him from the knives of his enemies. Now a-days he generally takes a social glass himself at the same time. From...
During the past summer, the New York Evening Post published a series of very interesting letters on the subject of college cribbing. These letters have now been collected and republished in a pamphlet entitled "The Ethics of the marking System." They are from college men of all descriptions, - graduates, undergraduates...
While a state of feeling exists at colleges, that will stamp this practice under the above conditions as respectable, there is no remedy. Volumes of mandates from faculties, armies of proctors will not stop it, if students themselves do not come to the rescue. Indeed, severe measures and elaborate plans...
The present fair weather offers especial inducements for scrub games of foot-ball. The active formation of many elevens is already going on. No field of athletic enjoyment and profitable exercise presents so many attractions to the average non-athletic man as scrub foot-ball. Here he is fairly matched...
The Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg a Polyglot College, in which will be taught all the modern languages of any importance, and the tongues of all the nationalities, about seventy, under the Czar's sceptre. The purpose of this college is to prepare trust worthy and...