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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the Freshman class on Tuesday evening it was voted to send a letter to the Yale Freshmen looking to a race next summer. In case an unfavorable answer is received from New Haven, a challenge will be sent to Columbia...
...Cornell Navy has withdrawn its challenge to our Boat Club, on the pretence that it is indignant because that challenge has not yet been formally accepted. The indignation may seem natural enough to those who do not know that an informal letter was written some time since to the Cornell boating authorities by the Secretary of the Harvard University Boat Club, stating that circumstances prevented his sending the formal acceptance at that time, but assuring the Cornell men that the challenge would doubtless be accepted very shortly. The members of this University may naturally wish to know what reasons have...
...views expressed in the letter upon the mid-year examinations which we print this week seem worthy of careful notice. The mere rumor that the examinations were to be crowded into a period much shorter than usual has created much excitement and called forth expressions of discontent. The fact is, the work to be done at that time is necessarily severe, for in the daily pressure of preparing recitations little time is found for reviews, and each student, however opposed to cramming, finds the few days before the examinations none too long for reviewing the half-year's work...
WHEN a brief and unpretending letter like mine calls forth nearly a column of editorial abuse from the Advocate, there must be either a remarkable sensitiveness to criticism or else a great lack of subjects for editorials. In the latter case I am glad to have furnished a slight stimulus to the laggard editorial pen; in the former case perhaps a slight explanation will help allay the indignation I have unwittingly excited...
This explanation I willingly make, and I trust that it will be satisfactory. I must say, however, that the Advocate's remarks about my probable age, ability, and experience, though exceedingly sarcastic and venomous, have done little towards showing that the opinions advanced in my last letter are wrong. They are the opinions, not merely of the writer, but of some of the ablest men in the class; and if these men do not accept the editorial decisions of the Advocate, they certainly have a right to state their own views...