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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...health in generous tin dippers. Of late years. however, each class has provided a separate bowl of punch of its own in the rooms facing on the college yard, and the year of the class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct...
...been told of riotous conduct on the part of the future alumni were the merest fiction. Of course, the boys, both old and young, are always excessively jolly on these occasions, and sometimes their conduct wakes the echoes under the towering elms of the college yard; but they generally know and recognize the bounds of propriety, and keep within those limits. It is hoped that this commencement will prove no exception to the rule, especially in view of the peculiar interest taken in the affairs of the university this year. Any lowering of the standard now would no doubt...
...college that a freshman nine has never beaten Yale. Yet there are a few now living who can remember that '81 was the last class to beat Yale in base-ball, and in view of a coincidence which shall later appear, it may not be uninteresting to '86 to know just how the thing was done...
There is no need of calling attention to the second freshman game with Yale which is to be played this afternoon on Jarvis. Every freshman will be there and a great many upper class-men will add dignity by their presence. We do not know whether or no any of the freshman faculty will lend their support by attending the game - as is said to have been the case at Yale - but we do feel confident that there will be a large enough crowd to give the freshmen all the encouragement they need. We expect them to make a desperate...
Last week when a student who rooms in one of the down-town blocks was coming out of his room he was stopped by the excited tenant of the room next to his, who wanted to know if he kept a telegraphic instrument in his room. On being answered in the negative the afore-mentioned tenant became still more excited and told a long story about hearing some one telegraphing, apparently inside the wall. He had noticed it several times, and, being somewhat of an operator, had even made out to read parts of the message, but could make...