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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English correspondent writes: "It may be of interest to your readers to know something of the life that is led by the students at Girton. The plan is to have all the meals in the dining hall; breakfast is supplied there from 8 to 9, lunch from 12 to 3, and dinner, which is, of course, a general meal, at 6. Tea is sent to the students' own rooms; about 4 o'clock the cheerful rattling of teacups is heard in the corridors, and announces the arrival of the servants with a large trayful of cups. These trays are taken...
...sometime to come. Let every man who has ever played the game show himself upon Holmes Field prepared to engage in the practice games. Let every man who has never played show himself on the field, and by his presence let those who have to do the practice know the college as a unit is thoroughly interested and alive to this department of athletics. Let '86 not be backward through a false sense of modesty, but work with the other classes, and she may be sure that if she has the talent it will be immediately recognized. If all will...
...each session. The subjects being known beforehand, each member of the society is expected to prepare himself for the discussion which follows the reading. Such subjects as the following are assigned: Value, Banks of Issue, Double Standard, Income Tax, State Ownership of Railways, etc. The student is expected to know, for instance, in the first case, the opinions of all prominent economists in reference to the subject, and their definitions of it. He must be able to give reasons for his own view, accompanied with refutation of the views he rejects, etc. It will be seen that the director...
...balls and a wild throw lost a game which had been won on its merits. The result of this game is but another illustration of the prevailing weakness of college players. They can generally pick up balls and make brilliant stops and catches, but they do not seem to know the little points of the game, but go to pieces at the first critical point. However, to lose a game by such an accident as the one of yesterday is certainly an instance of hard luck...
...college authorities and students will recognize the necessity of all possible precautions and care when they consider the little protection they can expect from such a body of men, who usually arrive at the scene of the disaster a half-hour after it has begun, and who do not know what to do when they have arrived...