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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...colleges - Princeton and Williams - which lead off the attempt to establish the Intercollegiate literary contests, have not been among the foremost to transform school-boys into students. The President of one of them, who is understood to be strongly in favor of the proposed plan, has already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed pupil, moulded to his own sweet will, and fully crammed for the conflict. Let us leave them in undisputed possession of the field...
...well known that in the English Universities every student has a set of rooms, where he sleeps, studies, gives choice breakfasts to his friends, and wines of an evening to large parties. Englishmen coming to this country are much surprised to find that here, as a rule, two students instead of one rent a room and its accompanying bedrooms. Such a system no doubt has its pleasures. With a chum a man who is of social disposition is certain not to be left for any great length of time alone. More visitors are said to come to see two than...
...well-known shape of Ossipee...
...present disgraces us, - for it would be hardly less than brutal to compel any one to attend a place in which there is not room enough for more than two thirds of its occupants; in which - But it is useless to enumerate its faults; they are already well known. Would that it had as many, or even any, merits which might be told! It must be remembered that the proposed Commons is to be in a room much more elegant than any in which students now take their meals, and where, by proper management, all, without being crowded, could obtain...
...William's aspiration to succeed Ed ward the Confessor known publicly before Hilde brand acquired his paramount influence at Rome