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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Each college seems to vie with the others in its strivings after idiocy in compounding its private cheer. All of their cheers begin with the "rah, rah, rah," and are distinguished from one another by different additions. The students of Columbia repeat each letter of the name of their college, and seem to think they have done well in convincing those who hear their revolting cheet that they can spell at least one word correctly. The Williams students finish their cheer with the words "Willyums, yams, yums," and the students...
...essays must be deposited with the secretary of the Finance Club on or before May 1st, 1884. The title-page must, with an assumed name, state of what class the writer is a member. A sealed letter must be sent in at the same time, under cover with the essay, containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with his assumed name...
...essays must be written upon letter paper, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom, and on each side. The sheets on which the essays are written must be securely stitched together...
...recent London letter to a New York daily says in relation to Prof. Lowell's election to the rectorship of St. Andrews : "We have no equivalent for this office at either Oxford or Cambridge, the undergraduates there having no voice in the election of any of their principals. Mr. Lowell ought to be pleased with St. Andrew's when he goes down to give his address. It is a picturesque old-world place, with the gray ivy-clad ruins of the ancient cathedral and castle standing in the midst of the clean, prim town, the old library, with its many...
...foot-ball. The team has now been out of training for a week and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to get into playing trim again in so short a time as is now left. Mr. Walter Oakes, the manager of the Harvard eleven, says in his letter declining the challenge, that "it is impossible to play another game, although we would like very much to play off the tie. Our semi-annuals are at hand and the men think that they cannot spare the time but must now make up for that lost during the foot-ball...