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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other hand, the question had no reference to college sports, it will be seen by glancing at the table that the athletic representatives would number scarcely one third of the committee. Moreover, it may be inferred that the delegate, like the legislator, will become more useful the longer he serves; and again by this plan there must always be a majority of experienced delegates, fifteen of the twenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Conference Committee. | 2/18/1885 | See Source »

...though Cambridge no longer echoes the songs of a returning theatre-party of freshmen, the custom is still kept up by student-kind in Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theatre Parties. | 2/9/1885 | See Source »

...system, less trying and fairer than the present, the benefits of which may be reaped, if not by themselves, at least by those who are to come after them. But, if they do not now get the reform they want, they should at least endeavor, when they become, no longer students, but instructors, to give the others what they did not enjoy themselves. The evil is a growing one; but we, sincerely believers in the slow, but as least sure, advancement of the world in all its interests, are confident that some day this great evil in education will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/6/1885 | See Source »

...such corporeal discipline "under the eye or the hand of the president as then commended itself to the "average Puritan and Anglo-Saxon "mind." With the abandonment of this custom, however, it would seem as if the real excuse for the use of Latin in the catalogue were no longer valiad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/6/1885 | See Source »

...necessary. But let not the students, therefore, be relax, and fail to subscribe, Let every member go to the Co-operative office, and put down his name for whatever amount he feels like contributing. Let every man in college who is not a member join at once, and not longer enjoy benefits which are paid for by others. Some have failed to join the society out of carelessness ; others, contemptible specimens of humanity,-we feel sure they cannot be many in number-have made use of their friends' tickets to effect their own purchases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/3/1885 | See Source »

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