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...Yale is considered, by "the many," to win her games "by sheer force and systematic evasions of the rules." Vox populi, vox dei. "The many" have not been deceived. The editor goes on to state, that Yale has done more for foot-ball than any other college in the land. We always thought that Harvard introduced the game; but, perhaps, there has been some mistake. That Yale's rules for stopping the block game were adopted, is true. But Princeton presented precisely the same rules, with certain additions, which would have entirely prevented...
...Dental Pathology. The office of "University Printer" is for the first time elevated to the dignity of a position in the catalogue. The list of annual lecturers is smaller than usual, and the only name of importance contained is that of President Walker, whose subject is "The Tenure of Land." In the list of students there is not much change from last year, save in the larger space given to freshmen and special students. The number of students entering from other colleges is gratifyingly large. A student from Harpoot, Armenia, and a bachelor of laws from Cambridge University, England, appears...
...merriment among his hearers. His "Show of Ghost" (as he termed it) being over, he finished with some practical remarks on the way in which the science was tending, and indulged in some pleasant sarcasms on the building now occupied by the school and the new building, a promised land which they were soon to enter...
...annex. If it is willing to have any pedagogical relations whatever with women students, it ought to be willing to conduct them on the same terms that are granted by Oxford and Cambridge - universities that were venerable with years and honors before Harvard was born into a land which parades its radicalism and its intellectual progress. It is time that the hobbledehoy twaddle about the dangers of this co-education were stopped. It is not now an open question; Cambridge and Oxford settled it some time ago. At these universities young women live in their own "halls" under the guardianship...
Chief Engineer Melville told the Jeannette court at Washington yesterday morning some of the experiences of the Jeannette party after they reached the main land...