Word: items
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...News reprints our item to the effect that Ross, the athlete, is fitting for college, with the added information that he is coming to Harvard...
...item is going the rounds of the press stating that at Princeton a prize of $1500 is a warded every third year to the member of the sophomore class exhibiting the greatest proficiency in the classics. If this be true, the triennially favored classes must show an alarming increase in numbers...
Turning to foreign universities, we find that in Germany the fees and living expenses are very much less than even at our cheapest colleges. In England, at Cambridge and Oxford. the expense is about the same as at Harvard, perhaps being slightly more at Oxford. An almost necessary item of expense at an English University is a fee for "coaching," or tutoring, as we would call it. With us, aid from private tutors is confined almost entirely to men who have neglected their work during the term and are desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars...
Room rent, board and tuition, are the principal items in the necessary expenses; and of these room rent varies the most. At Amherst, a student pays from $40 to $125 for a single room; at Williams, $25 to $100; at Yale, $50 to $140; while at Harvard the rent varies all the way from $44 to $300, with very few desirable rooms for less than $150. Of course, if two students room together, the expense is reduced one half. The difference in the second item, board, is not nearly so great, the large numbers at the city colleges rendering...
...with some surprise that we read an item in a Columbia paper, stating that the '87 crew of that college has not as yet been presented with the stand of colors won in the freshman race from our own '87 crew, last spring. To be sure, we cannot deprive Columbia of the freshman championship which she won so fairly at New London, but Columbia naturally desires to have in her possession the trophy which is to commemorate her triumph. We would call the attention of the proper authorities to this failure to fulfil the obligations of the '87 crew...